The Internet of Things Has a Gateway Problem
Thomas Zachariah, Noah Klugman, Brad Campbell, Josh Adkins, Neal Jackson, Prabal Dutta

Citation
Thomas Zachariah, Noah Klugman, Brad Campbell, Josh Adkins, Neal Jackson, Prabal Dutta. "The Internet of Things Has a Gateway Problem". HotMobile '15 Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, ACM, 27-32, 12, February, 2015.

Abstract
The vision of an Internet of Things (IoT) has captured the imagination of the world and raised billions of dollars, all before we stopped to deeply consider how all these Things should connect to the Internet. The current state of the art re- quires the implementation of application-layer gateways both in software and hardware that provide application-specic connectivity to IoT devices. In much the same way that it would be dicult to imagine requiring a new web browser for each website, it is hard to imagine our current approach to IoT connectivity scaling to support the IoT vision. To address this disconnect, we propose an architecture that leverages the increasingly ubiquitous presence of Bluetooth Low Energy radios to connect IoT peripherals to the Internet. In much the same way that WiFi APs revolutionized laptop utility, we envision a worldwide deployment of IoT gateways could revolutionize application agnostic connectivity, thus breaking free from the stove-piped architectures now taking hold. In this paper, we present our architecture, show example ap- plications enabled by it, and explore challenges in moving forward with implementation and deployment.

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  Thomas Zachariah, Noah Klugman, Brad Campbell, Josh Adkins,
  Neal Jackson, Prabal Dutta. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/470.html"
  >The Internet of Things Has a Gateway Problem</a>,
  HotMobile '15 Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop
  on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, ACM, 27-32,
  12, February, 2015.

• Plain text

  Thomas Zachariah, Noah Klugman, Brad Campbell, Josh Adkins,
  Neal Jackson, Prabal Dutta. "The Internet of Things Has
  a Gateway Problem". HotMobile '15 Proceedings of the
  16th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and
  Applications, ACM, 27-32, 12, February, 2015.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{ZachariahKlugmanCampbellAdkinsJacksonDutta15_InternetOfThingsHasGatewayProblem,
      author = {Thomas Zachariah and Noah Klugman and Brad
                Campbell and Josh Adkins and Neal Jackson and
                Prabal Dutta},
      title = {The Internet of Things Has a Gateway Problem},
      booktitle = {HotMobile '15 Proceedings of the 16th
                International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems
                and Applications},
      organization = {ACM},
      pages = {27-32},
      day = {12},
      month = {February},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {The vision of an Internet of Things (IoT) has
                captured the imagination of the world and raised
                billions of dollars, all before we stopped to
                deeply consider how all these Things should
                connect to the Internet. The current state of the
                art re- quires the implementation of
                application-layer gateways both in software and
                hardware that provide application-specic
                connectivity to IoT devices. In much the same way
                that it would be dicult to imagine requiring a
                new web browser for each website, it is hard to
                imagine our current approach to IoT connectivity
                scaling to support the IoT vision. To address this
                disconnect, we propose an architecture that
                leverages the increasingly ubiquitous presence of
                Bluetooth Low Energy radios to connect IoT
                peripherals to the Internet. In much the same way
                that WiFi APs revolutionized laptop utility, we
                envision a worldwide deployment of IoT gateways
                could revolutionize application agnostic
                connectivity, thus breaking free from the
                stove-piped architectures now taking hold. In this
                paper, we present our architecture, show example
                ap- plications enabled by it, and explore
                challenges in moving forward with implementation
                and deployment. },
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/470.html}
  }
  

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