Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) connects everyday objects including a vast array of sensors, actuators, and smart devices, referred to as things to the Internet, in an intelligent and pervasive fashion. This connectivity gives rise to the possibility of using the tracking capabilities of things to impinge on the location privacy of users. Most of the existing management and location privacy protection solutions do not consider the low-cost and low-power requirements of things, or, they do not account for the heterogeneity, scalability, or autonomy of communications supported in the IoT. Moreover, these traditional solutions do not consider the case where a user wishes to control the granularity of the disclosed information based on the context of their use (e.g. based on the time or the current location of the user). To fill this gap, a middleware, referred to as the Internet of Things Management Platform (IoT-MP) is proposed in this paper.
Highlights
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the future of the Internet
A physical thing can be described as a physical object equipped with a device that provides the capability of connecting to the Internet
The architecture of the Internet of Things Management Platform (IoT-MP) ranges from a simple two-tier architecture consisting of a manager and its associated agents to a distributed architecture which consists of agents, managers and a Manger of Mangers (MoMs)
Summary
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the future of the Internet. It provides societies, communities, governments, and individuals with the opportunity to obtain services over the Internet wherever they are and whenever they want. BI Intelligence predicts that the number of things connected to the Internet will grow by 35% between the years of 2014 and 2019 [17] These forecasts and predications highlight the significance and economic value of the IoT, and the role it plays in elevating communications on the Internet. The middleware, proposed in this work, is referred to as the Internet of Things Management Platform (IoT-MP) It provides users with fine-grained control over the granularity and disclosure settings of the users’ location information in the IoT. It adopts an extensible design where things are virtually represented as attributes in a management database located at the manager In this way, IoT applications can access things transparently over the Internet, irrespective of the underlying used communication technologies
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