Authors:
Wagner Luís de A. M. Macêdo
;
Tarcísio da Rocha
and
Edward David Moreno
Affiliation:
Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Constrained Devices, Internet of Things, Messaging Protocols.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Internet Technology
;
Protocols and Standards
;
Restful Web Services
;
System Integration
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
With the Internet of Things (IoT), it is predicted that the number of connected devices will reach 50 billion
by 2020. Many of these devices often adopt, at application layer, mutually incompatible messaging protocols.
A possible solution to this problem is to use a same messaging protocol among all devices. However, a
single protocol is not always suitable for both constrained and unconstrained devices. Several solutions to the
interoperability issue in the IoT have been proposed, but they neither provide transparent interoperation nor
are extensible and configurable enough. Meanwhile, this paper proposes GoThings, a preliminary gateway
architecture which can enable interconnectivity between different messaging protocols. GoThings is focused
on extensibility, configurability and generality, in the context of IoT problems.