Towards Horizontal Architecture for Autonomic M2M Service Networks

Abstract

Today, increasing number of industrial application cases rely on the Machine to Machine (M2M) services exposed from physical devices. Such M2M services enable interaction of physical world with the core processes of company information systems. However, there are grand challenges related to complexity and "vertical silos" limiting the M2M market scale and interoperability. It is here expected that horizontal approach for the system architecture is required for solving these challenges. Therefore, a set of architectural principles and key enablers for the horizontal architecture have been specified in this work. A selected set of key enablers called as autonomic M2M manager, M2M service capabilities, M2M messaging system, M2M gateways towards energy constrained M2M asset devices and creation of trust to enable end-to-end security for M2M applications have been developed. The developed key enablers have been evaluated separately in different scenarios dealing with smart metering, car sharing and electric bike experiments. The evaluation results shows that the provided architectural principles, and developed key enablers establish a solid ground for future research and seem to enable communication between objects and applications, which are not initially been designed to OPEN ACCESSFuture Internet 2014, 6 262 communicate together. The aim as the next step in this research is to create a combined experimental system to evaluate the system interoperability and performance in a more detailed manner.

Building a Simulation-in-the-loop Sensor Data Testbed for Cloud-enabled Pervasive Applications

“…Therefore, the major data formats, communication protocols and characteristics of sensor data and data communications in the internet of things must be studied. In this work, the focus will be kept on the data streaming in from sensors, IoT, pervasive environments or communication gateways 12 . Technical details on how and if the sensors communicate among themselves, with other nearby sensors, limited area networks or personal area networks via peer-to-peer technologies 13 , mobile Ad hoc networks 14,15 , wireless sensor networks 16 , or other short-range low power wireless protocols 17 are left out of scope in this research.…”

“…Running tests and experimenting with sensor data management scenarios with anything less than hundreds of nodes generating realistic data constantly is obviously non-relevant already when compared to some of the existing M2M and IoT solutions in the field today 16,26,34 , but especially so when taking into account the future potential and technological visions 12,15,32,[35][36][37][38] for the internet of things and pervasive sensor environments. On the other hand, experimenting exclusively with simulators does not provide results convincing and verifiable enough for scientific purposes.…”

The Internet of Things Model Architectures for Customized Applications: A Review

“…IoT-A Reference model [2] (Fig.1) A model was defined consisting of the following component models for security, interaction, communication and information [4]. ETSI-M2M defines service layer aspects of machine to machine systems [12], consisting of two domains serving for Device &Gateway as well as the Network. The FI-WARE project defined an open platform based on components referred to as Generic Enablers.…”

A Data-Oriented M2M Messaging Mechanism for Industrial IoT Applications

“…ETSI M2M service architecture is the first step towards a universal M2M platform, which already provided a good maturity level on unified communication capabilities and protocols [20]. SMLC is a US initiative on next-generation manufacturing, the goal of which is seamless manufacturing execution through a cloud-based, openarchitecture manufacturing infrastructure and marketplace supporting real-time applications that optimize manufacturing systems [21].…”