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There exists, today, a wide consensus that Internet of Things (IoT) is creating a wide range of business opportunities for various industries and sectors like Manufacturing, Healthcare, Public infrastructure management, Telecommunications and many others. On the other hand, the technological evolution of IoT facing serious challenges. The fragmentation in terms of communication protocols and data formats at device level is one of these challenges. Vendor specific application architectures, proprietary communication protocols and lack of IoT standards are some reasons behind the IoT fragmentation. In this paper we propose a software enabled framework to address the fragmentation challenge. The framework is based on flexible communication agents that are deployed on a gateway and can be adapted to various devices communicating different data formats using different communication protocol. The communication agent is automatically generated based on specifications and automatically deployed on the Gateway in order to connect the devices to a central platform where data are consolidated and exposed via REST APIs to third party services. Security and scalability aspects are also addressed in this work.

An instrument to improve the quality of life in large cities, helping to reduce the car traffic, is presented in this paper. It will result in a mobile guidance software that will help the drivers looking for a parking place to find it efficiently. SmartPark relies on available parking information systems, as well as on new sensors or even on social data inputs. A fixed magnetic on-street sensor and a video processing smart camera have been developed and prototypes of both devices were tested. Their data is available through a cloud-based Internet of Things infrastructure and continuously updated every few seconds. Databases will be built over time enabling data mining methods to infer parking availability models over time which will be used, eventually, by the algorithms feeding the mobile application.