Resource-oriented architecture toward efficient device management and service enablement

Abstract

Recent advances in the Internet-of-Things has given rise to the possibility of connecting different kinds of devices to the internet. With low computing resources constraining most IoT devices and their networks, managing the capabilities and services of the various constrained devices over the internet has been an issue for IoT implementations. Existing approaches to this problem lack end-to-end resource-oriented Device Management architecture for resource constrained devices and their networks as a result of protocol fragmentation in the domain. This study first proposes a Device Management architecture which is able to leverage more than one protocol in addressing this problem. We then base on the architecture to put forward an implementation approach to manifesting this solution through our usage of a simulated Smart Building case study. The analysis of the case study shows that the proposed resource-oriented architecture achieves device management and service enablement operations with good performance.