Connecting Mobile Things to Global Sensor Network Middleware using System-generated Wrappers
This addresses the problem of keeping up with rapid IoT device proliferation for developers, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing middleware like GSN.
The paper tackles the challenge of automating software driver and wrapper development for IoT devices by proposing the ASCM4GSN architecture, which significantly speeds up wrapper development and sensor configuration for mobile and Sun SPOT sensors.
Internet of Things (IoT) will create a cyberphysical world where all the things around us are connected to the Inter net, sense and produce "big data" that has to be stored, processed and communicated with minimum human intervention. With the ever increasing emergence of new sensors, interfaces and mobile devices, the grand challenge is to keep up with this race in developing software drivers and wrappers for IoT things. In this paper, we examine the approaches that automate the process of developing middleware drivers/wrappers for the IoT things. We propose ASCM4GSN architecture to address this challenge efficiently and effectively. We demonstrate the proposed approach using Global Sensor Network (GSN) middleware which exemplifies a cluster of data streaming engines. The ASCM4GSN architecture significantly speeds up the wrapper development and sensor configuration process as demonstrated for Android mobile phone based sensors as well as for Sun SPOT sensors.