Citation
Brad Campbell. "Interfacing the Internet of a Trillion Things". Talk or presentation, 13, April, 2015.

Abstract
Meaningful, reusable applications built on top of ubiquitous and networked devices will not materialize as long as device APIs vary widely, communication protocols are not standardized, and programming support is limited and inconsistent. When even feature-identical devices present differ- ent APIs and application creators are burdened with managing the variability, the promise of the swarm of devices will go unrealized. We start addressing this issue by providing a model for devices, based on input and output ports, that allows for a set of common interfaces to represent a range of devices. Further, we provide a solution to the bootstrapping problem, providing a general means to bridge the adoption gap for a new API for the Internet of Things. We borrow both the name, accessor, and several key design concepts from a recent proposal by Lee et. al [14], for our interface layer that wraps currently non-conforming devices with the standard interface. We show how a small, straightforward to write (and read) JavaScript file can convert diverse devices into common interfaces that are conducive for creating applications. We realize our system with three environments that can execute accessors, Python, Java, and Node.js, a range of accessors for both IoT and legacy devices, and a browser-based application for interacting with devices using our proposed interfaces. We show how the same accessor mechanism can form synthetic devices with higher-level interfaces and we outline how our system can be extended to support authentication, accessor control, and cloud storage support.

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  Brad Campbell. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/562.html"
  ><i>Interfacing the Internet of a Trillion
  Things</i></a>, Talk or presentation,  13,
  April, 2015.

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  Brad Campbell. "Interfacing the Internet of a Trillion
  Things". Talk or presentation,  13, April, 2015.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{Campbell15_InterfacingInternetOfTrillionThings,
      author = {Brad Campbell},
      title = {Interfacing the Internet of a Trillion Things},
      day = {13},
      month = {April},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = { Meaningful, reusable applications built on top of
                ubiquitous and networked devices will not
                materialize as long as device APIs vary widely,
                communication protocols are not standardized, and
                programming support is limited and inconsistent.
                When even feature-identical devices present
                differ- ent APIs and application creators are
                burdened with managing the variability, the
                promise of the swarm of devices will go
                unrealized. We start addressing this issue by
                providing a model for devices, based on input and
                output ports, that allows for a set of common
                interfaces to represent a range of devices.
                Further, we provide a solution to the
                bootstrapping problem, providing a general means
                to bridge the adoption gap for a new API for the
                Internet of Things. We borrow both the name,
                accessor, and several key design concepts from a
                recent proposal by Lee et. al [14], for our
                interface layer that wraps currently
                non-conforming devices with the standard
                interface. We show how a small, straightforward to
                write (and read) JavaScript file can convert
                diverse devices into common interfaces that are
                conducive for creating applications. We realize
                our system with three environments that can
                execute accessors, Python, Java, and Node.js, a
                range of accessors for both IoT and legacy
                devices, and a browser-based application for
                interacting with devices using our proposed
                interfaces. We show how the same accessor
                mechanism can form synthetic devices with
                higher-level interfaces and we outline how our
                system can be extended to support authentication,
                accessor control, and cloud storage support.},
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/562.html}
  }
  

Posted by Armin Wasicek on 7 May 2015.