Facilitating sensor deployment, discovery and resource access using embedded web services
Date
2012-07-04
Authors
Ishaq, Isam
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Publisher
IEEE
Abstract
Smart embedded objects such as sensors and
actuators will become an important part of the Internet of
Things. With recent technologies, it has now become possible
to deploy a sensor network and interconnect it with IPv6
Internet. However, several manual configuration steps are still
needed to integrate a sensor network within an existing
networking environment. In this paper we describe a novel
self-organization solution to facilitate the deployment of sensor
networks and enable the discovery, end-to-end connectivity
and service usage of these newly deployed sensor nodes. The
proposed approach makes use of embedded web service
technology, i.e. the IETF Constrained Application Protocol
(CoAP). Automatic hierarchical discovery of CoAP servers is
one of the key features, resulting in a browsable hierarchy of
CoAP servers, up to the level of the sensor resources, which
can be accessed both over CoAP and HTTP and through the
use of either DNS names or IPv6 addresses. To demonstrate
the feasibility of our approach we have implemented the
solution and deployed it on a test setup, which is publicly
accessible to everyone.
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Keywords
CoAP , self-organization , Internet of Things , DNS , proxy , embedded web services , discovery
Citation
Ishaq, Isam, Jeroen Hoebeke, Jen Rossey, Eli De Poorter, Ingrid Moerman, and Piet Demeester. "Facilitating sensor deployment, discovery and resource access using embedded web services." In Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS), 2012 Sixth International Conference on, pp. 717-724. IEEE, 2012.