IoT-InterArch: uma arquitetura para apoiar a interoperabilidade em ecossistemas de IoT

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) can be considered as the internet of the future and the growing use and production of smart devices from different manufacturers generate barriers in communication for the IoT. In the literature, several works have been carried out to mitigate the interoperability problem, in a general context and in the IoT. However, the focus of most of these works is on the syntactic and semantic level. A systematic mapping was carried out in the context of this research and it was observed that there are few works that focus on the pragmatic level in IoT. The objective of this work is to propose an architecture, called IoT-InterArch, to support interoperability in IoT ecosystems taking into account IoT limitations (processing, memory and bandwidth). For the evaluation of the proposed architecture, the case study was carried out using an intelligent greenhouse as a context. Five evaluation scenarios were created to evaluate software quality attributes (scalability, extensibility and flexibility) from the addition of new flows. The execution of the assessment showed evidence that proves that the proposed architecture supports interoperability in IoT ecosystems taking into account the limitations of the IoT.