A framework for cooperative intranet of Things wireless sensor network applications

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is generally based on mobile and stationary communication objects. These objects communicate the information that they collect to other potentially remote objects for processing. We view the IoT as composed of numerous intranets of Things. Each intranet of Things (ioT), which may belong to an organization or an enterprise, may contain several applications. Each of these applications monitors phenomena and collects data that could be of interest to a certain party. Nevertheless, ensuring that these potentially separate and different applications are managed uniformly is not an easy task for the ioT operators. We therefore need to establish an arrangement by which we facilitate the co-existence, cooperation and management of these applications. In this study, we introduce a unified framework to facilitate the management of existing mobile and static wireless sensor network (WSN) applications as well the introduction of new WSN applications for a given ioT. This framework includes network and application maintenance tasks as well as the tasks required to connect these applications to the IoT. We provide a solid example on how this framework can be implemented. Finally, we present some experimental results on the performance of this example implementation from different perspectives.