Internet of Things (IoT) is an emergent technology that provides a promising opportunity to
improve industrial systems by the smartly use of physical objects, systems, platforms and
applications that contain embedded technology to communicate and share intelligence with
each other. In recent years, a great range of industrial IoT applications have been developed
and deployed. Among these applications, the Water and Oil & Gas Distribution System is
tremendously important considering the huge amount of fluid loss caused by leakages and other
possible hydraulic failures. Accordingly, to design an accurate Fluid Distribution Monitoring
System (FDMS) represents a critical task that imposes a serious study and an adequate
planning. This paper reviews the current state-of-the-art of IoT, major IoT applications in
industries and focus more on the Industrial IoT FDMS (IIoT FDMS).