An Internet of Things for Manufacturing (IoTfM) Enterprise Software Architecture

Smart home is one of the most promising applications of the Internet of Things. Although there have been studies about this technology in recent years, the adoption rate of smart homes is still low. One of the largest barriers is technological fragmentation within the smart home ecosystem. Currently, there are many protocols used in a connected home, increasing the confusion of consumers when choosing a product for their house. One possible solution for this fragmentation is to make a gateway to handle the diverse protocols as a central hub in the home. However, this solution brings about another issue for manufacturers: compatibility. Because of the various smart devices on the market, supporting all possible devices in one gateway is also an enormous challenge. In this paper, we propose a software architecture for a gateway in a smart home system to solve the compatibility problem. By creating a mechanism to dynamically download and update a device profile from a server, the gateway can easily handle new devices. Moreover, the proposed gateway also supports unified control over heterogeneous networks. We implemented a prototype to prove the feasibility of the proposed gateway architecture and evaluated its performance from the viewpoint of message execution time over heterogeneous networks, as well as the latency for device profile downloads and updates, and the overhead needed for handling unknown commands.

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Software architecture pattern selection model for Internet of Things based systems

IET Software ◽

10.1049/iet-sen.2017.0206 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

pp. 390-396 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Pramod Mathew Jacob ◽

Prasanna Mani

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Software Architecture ◽

Selection Model ◽

Pattern Selection ◽

Architecture Pattern

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Evaluating energy efficiency of Internet of Things software architecture based on reusable software components

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks ◽

10.1177/1550147716682738 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 155014771668273 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Doohwan Kim ◽

Jae-Young Choi ◽

Jang-Eui Hong

Keyword(s):

Energy Consumption ◽

Internet Of Things ◽

Software Architecture ◽

Personal Information ◽

High Energy ◽

The Internet ◽

Quality Factors ◽

Reusable Components ◽

Energy Evaluation ◽

Internet Of Things Technology

Nowadays, Internet of Things technology has garnered a great amount of interest because it can make our life much easier, convenient, and even safer. Internet of Things devices can be connected to the Internet or to each other whenever and wherever in order to collect, process, and share information to support various services. In order to provide useful support, important issues related to security, performance, and energy consumption have to be considered. For example, important personal information can be easily exposed to others because Internet of Things can be easily hacked; low performance and high energy consumption can limit the effectiveness of devices. These issues can be considered as quality factors that need to be met in order to develop software applications in the Internet of Things domain. Energy consumption is critical to provide sustained service within mobile and wireless environments. To this end, this article focuses on how to develop Internet of Things software that takes low energy consumption into account. In particular, we propose energy evaluation techniques that are based on a software architecture that is designed to use reusable components. By performing an experiment, we could verify that our proposing method shows maximum 6.83% of error rate against code-based energy simulation. Our technique can help software engineers to judge whether or not software is developed to satisfy the particular requirements related with energy consumption.

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