Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently received significant attention by the civilian and military community, mostly due to the fast growth of UAV technologies supported by wireless communications and networking. UAVs can be used to improve the efficiency and performance of the Internet of Things (IoT) in terms of connectivity, coverage, reliability, stability, etc. In particular, to support IoT applications in an efficient manner, UAVs should be organized as a Flying Ad-hoc NETwork (FANET). FANET is a subclass of Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) where nodes are Unmanned Artifact Systems (UAS). However, the deployment of UAVs in IoT is limited by several constraints, such as limited resource capacity of UAVs and ground devices, signal collision and interference, intermittent availability of the IoT infrastructure, etc. In the Internet of Flying Things (IoFT) literature, there are no survey or study that exhaustively covers and discusses all key concepts and recent works on IoFT. In this paper a comprehensive survey on the IoFT is presented, covering the state of the art in flying things with a focus on IoFT. A taxonomy of related literature on IoFT is proposed, including a classification, description and comparative study of different work on IoFT. Furthermore, the paper presents IoFT applications, IoFT challenges and future perspectives. This survey aims to provide the basic concepts and a complete overview of the recent studies on IoFT for the scientific researchers.

无人飞行器（UAV）最近受到了民用和军事界的广泛关注，这主要归功于无线通信和网络支持的无人驾驶技术的快速发展。无人机可用于在连接性，覆盖范围，可靠性，稳定性等方面提高物联网（IoT）的效率和性能。特别是，为了有效地支持IoT应用，无人机应组织为“飞行”。临时网络（FANET）。FANET是移动自组织网络（MANET）的子类，其中的节点是无人为工具系统（UAS）。但是，无人机在物联网中的部署受到多种限制，例如无人机和地面设备的资源容量有限，信号碰撞和干扰，物联网基础设施的间歇可用性等。在飞行物联网（IoFT）文献中，没有调查或研究详尽地涵盖并讨论了有关IoFT的所有关键概念和最新著作。在本文中，我们对IoFT进行了全面的调查，涵盖了以IoFT为重点的飞行物最新技术。提出了有关IoFT的相关文献分类法，包括对IoFT的不同工作的分类，描述和比较研究。此外，本文还介绍了IoFT的应用，IoFT的挑战和未来的前景。这项调查旨在为科学研究人员提供有关IoFT的最新研究的基本概念和完整概述。在本文中，我们对IoFT进行了全面的调查，涵盖了以IoFT为重点的飞行物最新技术。提出了有关IoFT的相关文献分类法，包括对IoFT的不同工作的分类，描述和比较研究。此外，本文还介绍了IoFT的应用，IoFT的挑战和未来的前景。这项调查旨在为科学研究人员提供有关IoFT的最新研究的基本概念和完整概述。在本文中，我们对IoFT进行了全面的调查，涵盖了以IoFT为重点的飞行物最新技术。提出了有关IoFT的相关文献分类法，包括对IoFT的不同工作的分类，描述和比较研究。此外，本文还介绍了IoFT的应用，IoFT的挑战和未来的前景。这项调查旨在为科学研究人员提供有关IoFT的最新研究的基本概念和完整概述。