GoThings - An Application-layer Gateway Architecture for the Internet of Things

Wagner Luís de A. M. Macêdo, Tarcísio da Rocha, Edward David Moreno

2015

Abstract

With the Internet of Things (IoT), it is predicted that the number of connected devices will reach 50 billion by 2020. Many of these devices often adopt, at application layer, mutually incompatible messaging protocols. A possible solution to this problem is to use a same messaging protocol among all devices. However, a single protocol is not always suitable for both constrained and unconstrained devices. Several solutions to the interoperability issue in the IoT have been proposed, but they neither provide transparent interoperation nor are extensible and configurable enough. Meanwhile, this paper proposes GoThings, a preliminary gateway architecture which can enable interconnectivity between different messaging protocols. GoThings is focused on extensibility, configurability and generality, in the context of IoT problems.

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Luís de A. M. Macêdo W., da Rocha T. and David Moreno E. (2015). GoThings - An Application-layer Gateway Architecture for the Internet of Things . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-106-9, pages 135-140. DOI: 10.5220/0005493701350140


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist15,
author={Wagner Luís de A. M. Macêdo and Tarcísio da Rocha and Edward David Moreno},
title={GoThings - An Application-layer Gateway Architecture for the Internet of Things},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2015},
pages={135-140},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005493701350140},
isbn={978-989-758-106-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - GoThings - An Application-layer Gateway Architecture for the Internet of Things
SN - 978-989-758-106-9
AU - Luís de A. M. Macêdo W.
AU - da Rocha T.
AU - David Moreno E.
PY - 2015
SP - 135
EP - 140
DO - 10.5220/0005493701350140