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SMEs and Internet of Things White Paper

published by admin on Thu, 2013-02-07 14:46

SMEs and Internet of Things
Angele Giuliano & Johan E. Bengtsson – AcrossLimits (Malta)

This white paper has been produced by the OpenIoT project as part of their requirements analysis at the start of their research project. Significant results have however been found and the aim of this document is to make these results public, since they might help other projects or other entities working in the Internet of Things domain to understand more what are the needs and situations that SMEs are facing.

Click here to download the white paper in PDF format.

File: 
130206SMESurveyWhitePaper.pdf

Sensor Networks

OpenIoT leverages the state-of-the art on middleware frameworks for RFID/WSN and IoT. GSN and AspireRFID will be used to provide baseline middleware functionalities associated with registering and looking up internet-connected objects. The OpenIoT will support flexible configuration and deployment of algorithms for collection, and filtering information streams stemming from the internet-connected objects, while at the same time processing important business/applications events.

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Management

OpenIoT carries out research on dynamic interoperable self-organizing management on cloud environments comprising sensors, sensor networks, smart devices and other IoT “entities”. OpenIoT will enable the autonomy of a variety of IoT entities and resources, such as sensors, sensor networks (including ad-hoc and self-organizing networks).

Management

Cloud / Utility Computing

OpenIoT is taking into account existing tools and techniques for the virtualization of computing resources and seek for the possibility to extend current cloud technologies towards the possibilities internet-connected objects can be virtualized, despite limitations imposed by their geographical locations, administrative ownership and functional capabilities.

OpenIoT researches on the creation of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS models over internet- connected objects. To this end, it OpenIoT will extend state-of-the-art cloud computing middleware (e.g., cloud OS, eucalyptus, OpenNebula) with the ability of configuring and using sensor based services. Users of the OpenIoT cloud will be able to develop applications that leverage information from multiple sensors, actuators and other devices.

Semantic Technologies

OpenIoT integrates ontologies and semantic structures, in order to enable semantic interactions and interoperability between the various objects, which means a significant advancement over the existing syntactic interactions offered by GSN and AspireRFID. Furthermore, OpenIoT will provide Open Linked Data interfaces (e.g., SPARQL (SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language) over ontologies for internet-connected objects within the physical world middleware).

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Open Source

OpenIoT aim is to be an open source solution, at first a kind of extension of existing open cloud computing infrastructures towards the Internet of Things support by using algorithms and self-organizing management strategies, and later a fully customizable toolkit for the Internet of Things into the cloud thus end-users will be able to configure, deploy and use IoT based services in Cloud environments.

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