Connecting Mobile Things to Global Sensor Network Middleware using System-generated Wrappers

TL;DR

This paper introduces ASCM4GSN, an architecture that automates the creation of middleware wrappers for IoT devices, significantly reducing development time and effort for integrating diverse sensors with GSN middleware.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel architecture, ASCM4GSN, that automates middleware wrapper development for IoT devices, enhancing efficiency and scalability.

Findings

Speeds up wrapper development for Android sensors

Reduces manual configuration efforts

Demonstrated effectiveness with Sun SPOT sensors

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) will create a cyberphysical world where all the things around us are connected to the Inter net, sense and produce "big data" that has to be stored, processed and communicated with minimum human intervention. With the ever increasing emergence of new sensors, interfaces and mobile devices, the grand challenge is to keep up with this race in developing software drivers and wrappers for IoT things. In this paper, we examine the approaches that automate the process of developing middleware drivers/wrappers for the IoT things. We propose ASCM4GSN architecture to address this challenge efficiently and effectively. We demonstrate the proposed approach using Global Sensor Network (GSN) middleware which exemplifies a cluster of data streaming engines. The ASCM4GSN architecture significantly speeds up the wrapper development and sensor configuration process as demonstrated for Android mobile phone based sensors as well as for Sun SPOT sensors.