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Taming Internet of Things Application Development with the IoTvar Middleware

Authors:

Pedro Victor Borges,

Chantal Taconet,

Sophie Chabridon,

Everton Cavalcante,

Thais BatistaAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Volume 23, Issue 2

Article No.: 29, Pages 1 - 21

https://doi.org/10.1145/3586010

Published: 19 May 2023 Publication History

Abstract

In the last years, Internet of Things (IoT) platforms have been designed to provide IoT applications with various services such as device discovery, context management, and data filtering. The lack of standardization has led each IoT platform to propose its own abstractions, APIs, and data models. As a consequence, programming interactions between an IoT consuming application and an IoT platform is time-consuming, is error prone, and depends on the developers’ level of knowledge about the IoT platform. To address these issues, this article introduces IoTvar, a middleware library deployed on the IoT consumer application that manages all its interactions with IoT platforms. IoTvar relies on declaring variables automatically mapped to sensors whose values are transparently updated with sensor observations through proxies on the client side. This article presents the IoTvar architecture and shows how it has been integrated into the FIWARE, OM2M, and muDEBS platforms. We also report the results of experiments performed to evaluate IoTvar, showing that it reduces the effort required to declare and manage IoT variables and has no considerable impact on CPU, memory, and energy consumption.

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ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Volume 23, Issue 2

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DOI:10.1145/3597634

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Published: 19 May 2023

Online AM: 28 February 2023

Accepted: 16 February 2023

Revised: 19 November 2022

Received: 25 April 2022

Published in TOIT Volume 23, Issue 2

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