title: Implementation and Evaluation of Four Interoperable Open Standards for the Internet of Things.
abstract: Recently, researchers are focusing on a new use of the Internet called the Internet of Things (IoT), in which enabled electronic devices can be remotely accessed over the Internet. As the realization of IoT concept is still in its early stages, manufacturers of Internet-connected devices and IoT web service providers are defining their proprietary protocols based on their targeted applications. Consequently, IoT becomes heterogeneous in terms of hardware capabilities and communication protocols. Addressing these heterogeneities by following open standards is a necessary step to communicate with various IoT devices. In this research, we assess the feasibility of applying existing open standards on resource-constrained IoT devices. The standard protocols developed in this research are OGC PUCK over Bluetooth, TinySOS, SOS over CoAP, and OGC SensorThings API. We believe that by hosting open standard protocols on IoT devices, not only do the devices become self-describable, self-contained, and interoperable, but innovative applications can also be easily developed with standardized interfaces. In addition, we use memory consumption, request message size, response message size, and response latency to benchmark the efficiency of the implemented protocols. In all, this research presents and evaluates standard-based solutions to better understand the feasibility of applying existing standards to the IoT vision.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada. sma.jazayeri@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Mohammad Ali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Jazayeri
authors.affiliation: Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada. steve.liang@ucalgary.ca.
authors.forename: Steve H L
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.affiliation: Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, No. 300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli District, Taoyuan City 320, Taiwan. cyhuang@csrsr.ncu.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Chih-Yuan
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Huang
keywords: CoAP; Internet of Things; IoT device; OGC SWE; PUCK; Sensor Observation Service; SensorThings; interoperability; sensor