[01] Amina El Murabet, Computer Engineering Department, National School of Applied Sciences of Tetouan, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tetouan, Morocco. [02] Anouar Abtoy, Computer Engineering Department, National School of Applied Sciences of Tetouan, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tetouan, Morocco. [03] Abderrahim Tahiri, Computer Engineering Department, National School of Applied Sciences of Tetouan, Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Tetouan, Morocco.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged in the last decade as Technological advancements that offers smart objects being capable of identifying, locating, sensing and connecting. The estimated population of connected IoT devices in 2018 is 23.14 billion and its forecasts to be 75 billion by 2025. In the other hand, another field has emerged; Ambient Assisted Living. These AAL applications and solutions are designed to face an urgent crisis facing the world: the increasing number of elder and senior citizens. AAL systems tend to offer a better life quality for these stakeholders, and at the same time, reducing the economic cost of this process for the society. The IoT and its paradigms become the enablers for many applications and domains such as Ambient Assisted Living systems. The objective of this study is to explore the two fields: Internet of Things and Ambient Assisted Living. In this paper, we present an overview of the Internet of Things. We also investigate the paradigms that make the Internet of Things area a successful and promising field. The seven layers and the technologies associated to IoT, the AAL generations are also discussed. Finally, we present the application domains and scenarios related to Internet of Things that serves the development of Ambient Assisted Living field.

Applied Computing, Internet of Things, Ambient Assisted Living

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