Chegini, H., Naha, R.K., Mahanti, A. and Thulasiraman, P., 2021. Process automation in an IoT–fog–cloud ecosystem: A survey and taxonomy. IoT , 2 (1), pp.92-118. https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/IoT/IoT-02-00006/article_deploy/IoT-02-00006-v2.pdf?version=1612923821 this is the academic paper I will summarize. the problem is that it is very long (23 pages) so this will be a summary of the first part of this academic paper : there are various types of IoT components and applications in terms of data, software, hardware, and actors. Different types of information are introduced to the IoT application: local information (close to the IoT layer) and global information (close to the cloud layer). In terms of hardware, various hardware platforms collaborate for data processing in the ecosystem, such as computational resources, storing resources, disk resources, and network resources with multiple attributes. As for software, different programming codes exist. Communicating agents,...