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Sensyml: Simulation Environment for large-scale IoT Applications

Authors:

Isakovic Haris,

Vanja Bisanovic,

Bernhard Wally,

Denise Ratasich,

Schahram Dustdar,

Radu GrosuAuthors Info & Claims

IECON 2019 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Pages 3024 - 3030

https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2019.8927756

Published: 01 October 2019 Publication History

Abstract

IoT systems are becoming an increasingly important component of the civil and industrial infrastructure. With the growth of these IoT ecosystems, their complexity is also growing exponentially. In this paper we explore the problem of testing and evaluating large scale IoT systems at design time. To this end we employ simulated sensors with the physical and geographical characteristics of real sensors. Moreover, we propose Sensyml, a simulation environment that is capable of generating big data from cyber-physical models and real-world data. To the best of our knowledge it is the first approach to use a hybrid integration of real and simulated sensor data, that is also capable of being integrated into existing IoT systems. Sensyml is a cloud based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) system that enables users to test both functionality and scalability of their IoT applications.

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Narimani Zaman Abadi MJalaly Bidgoly AFarjami Y(2024)ASSOCIATEComputer Communications10.1016/j.comcom.2024.01.023217:C(107-125)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.comcom.2024.01.023
Ferreira VHerrera CSouza SSantos RSouza P(2023)Software Testing applied to the Development of IoT Systems: preliminary resultsProceedings of the 8th Brazilian Symposium on Systematic and Automated Software Testing10.1145/3624032.3624049(113-122)Online publication date: 25-Sep-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3624032.3624049

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Sensyml: Simulation Environment for large-scale IoT Applications
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Simulation support systems
2. Software and its engineering

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Narimani Zaman Abadi MJalaly Bidgoly AFarjami Y(2024)ASSOCIATEComputer Communications10.1016/j.comcom.2024.01.023217:C(107-125)Online publication date: 25-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.comcom.2024.01.023
Ferreira VHerrera CSouza SSantos RSouza P(2023)Software Testing applied to the Development of IoT Systems: preliminary resultsProceedings of the 8th Brazilian Symposium on Systematic and Automated Software Testing10.1145/3624032.3624049(113-122)Online publication date: 25-Sep-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3624032.3624049

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