Paper Info
Title
A Platform for Integrating Physical Devices in the Internet of Things
Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a paradigm in which smart things actively collaborate among them and with other physical and virtual objects available in the Web in order to perform high-level tasks. IoT environments are typically characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity, thus encompassing devices with different capabilities, functionalities, and network protocols. In such a scenario, it is necessary to provide abstractions for physical devices and services to applications and end-users, as well as means to manage the interoperability between such heterogeneous elements. In this context, we introduce EcoDiF (Web Ecosystem of Physical Devices), a Web-based platform for integrating heterogeneous physical devices with applications and users in order to provide services to support real-time data control, visualization, processing, and storage. In this paper, we present the main features of EcoDiF and detail its architecture and implementation, which is based on well-known Web technologies such as HTTP, REST, EEML, and EMML. Furthermore, we present a preliminary evaluation of an EcoDiF prototype through proof-of-concept applications from different domains as well as a performance analysis of the platform.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/EUC.2014.42
EUC
Keywords
Field
DocType
internet of things, integration of physical devices, iot middleware, ecodif, rest, eeml, emml
Mashup,Web of Things,Architecture,Interoperability,Computer science,Visualization,Internet of Things,Server,Computer network,Communications protocol
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.56
8
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paulo F. Pires158762.83
Everton Cavalcante214124.32
Thomaz Barros3151.26
Flávia Coimbra Delicato427232.77
Thais Batista547444.46
Bruno Costa6395.28
rio de janeiro760.56