title: WebTag: Web browsing into sensor tags over NFC.
abstract: Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) continue to overcome many of the challenges related to wireless sensor monitoring, such as for example the design of smarter embedded processors, the improvement of the network architectures, the development of efficient communication protocols or the maximization of the life cycle autonomy. This work tries to improve the communication link of the data transmission in wireless sensor monitoring. The upstream communication link is usually based on standard IP technologies, but the downstream side is always masked with the proprietary protocols used for the wireless link (like ZigBee, Bluetooth, RFID, etc.). This work presents a novel solution (WebTag) for a direct IP based access to a sensor tag over the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology for secure applications. WebTag allows a direct web access to the sensor tag by means of a standard web browser, it reads the sensor data, configures the sampling rate and implements IP based security policies. It is, definitely, a new step towards the evolution of the Internet of Things paradigm.
authors.affiliation: Deusto Institute of Technology-DeustoTech, University of Deusto, Avenida de las Universidades 24, Bilbao 48007, Spain. juanjose.echevarria@deusto.es
authors.forename: Juan Jose
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Echevarria
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ruiz-de-Garibay
authors.forename: Jon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Legarda
authors.forename: Maite
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alvarez
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ayerbe
authors.forename: Juan Ignacio
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Vazquez