Similitudes y diferencias entre Redes de Sensores Inalámbricas e Internet de las Cosas: Hacia una postura clarificadora

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) and Internet of Things (IoT) are two fields of study, which share, being an autonomous network infrastructure, where objects are interconnected to measure physical variables in scenarios such as logistics, industry, intelligent constructions, security, agriculture, among others. This similarity raises an ambiguity in the academic community's use of the terms WSN and IoT doing blurred the line of where belong the contributions that are made in each of these areas of study. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to analyze the relationship, similarity, and differences between WSN and IoT around five topics, namely: conceptual level, its general requirements and architectures, application construction and data processing. Although WSN and IoT have a common origin, their approaches are different in several ways that clarify the ambiguity arouses among the academic community.