The Things in the IoT can be any chip (microcontroller or processor) based system typically called embedded systems that act as a transceiver to exchange information/data over a network.

So that the information can be simply exchange between device to device, device to human or human to device.

These data can be stored in remote servers (Cloud) used for analysis, monitoring or control applications and can be accessible from multiple distributions via network. This type of service model is called cloud storage which is provided by the hosting companies.

Processing of these data by a software/program/application installed in the remote server over the internet is called cloud data computing.