34 Int. J. Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, Vol. 18, Nos. 1/2, 2019 Copyright © 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Context aware reliable sensor selection in IoT K.R. Remesh Babu* and M. Vishnu Prathap Department of Information Technology, Government Engineering College, Idukki Painavu, Idukki, Kerala, 685603, India Email: remeshbabu@yahoo.com Email: mvishnuprathap@gmail.com *Corresponding author Philip Samuel Division of Information Technology, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala, 682022, India Email: philipcusat@gmail.com Abstract: Internet of things (IoT) is a computing concept where physical objects with embedded sensors connect to the internet and can identify themselves to other devices. Today, the number of devices connected to the internet is increasing rapidly and they want to communicate each other for different purposes. The future internet will comprise of billions of intelligent communicating objects having capabilities for sensing, actuating and data processing. Each object in this cyber physical systems (CPS) will have one or more embedded sensors that will capture huge amount of data. Managing these data in cloud and obtaining the relevant data from appropriate sensors are important concerns. For information retrieval context awareness is important. Usually users need information from these sensors depending upon several factors such as location, accuracy level, etc. The proposed method senses reliable data from a sensor environment that satisfies user contexts. It also contains different functionalities such as user addition, location sensing, context specification, user context counting and selection of current best results. Keywords: cloud computing; context awareness; IoT; internet of things; sensor selection; CoT; cloud of things; resource management. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Remesh Babu, K.R., Vishnu Prathap, M. and Samuel, P. (2019) ‘Context aware reliable sensor selection in IoT’, Int. J. Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, Vol. 18, Nos. 1/2, pp.34–51. Biographical notes: K.R. Remesh Babu holds his BSc in Mathematics from the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India, BTech in Information Technology from the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Kochi, India and ME in Computer Science from the Anna University, Chennai, India. He is currently pursuing the PhD degree at CUSAT. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology, Government Engineering College, Idukki, India. His current research includes, cloud computing, internet of things and big data analytics.