A Teleo-Reactive Node for Implementing Internet of Things Systems.

Pedro Sánchez,Elías Antolinos,Diego Fernández,Andrés Iborra,Bárbara Álvarez

doi:10.3390/s18041059

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Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of today’s main disruptive technologies and, although massive research has been carried out in recent years, there are still some open issues such as the consideration of software engineering methods and tools. We propose the adoption of the Teleo-Reactive approach in order to facilitate the development of Internet of Things systems as a set of communicating Teleo-Reactive nodes. The software behavior of the nodes is specified in terms of goals, perceptions and actions over the environment, achieving higher abstraction than using general-purpose programming languages and therefore, enhancing the involvement of non-technical users in the specification process. Throughout this paper, we describe the elements of a Teleo-Reactive node and a systematic procedure for translating Teleo-Reactive specifications into executable code for Internet of Things devices. The case study of a robotic agent is used in order to validate the whole approach.

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The Internet of Things (IoT) technology has many dimensions; it can be studied from multiple points of view and its growing popularity has come with an explosion in the number of protocols, tools, standards, architectures, middleware and platforms which have been developed to provide either vertical or horizontal solutions in many different domains [1,2]
IoT application development usually assumes that all the users participating in the process have analogous competencies and technological skills, this is not so, as role separation is a key concept in considering the multidiscipline perspective of IoT systems [4]
This paper presents the application of the TR approach as a way to facilitate the implementation of IoT systems

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The Internet of Things (IoT) technology has many dimensions; it can be studied from multiple points of view and its growing popularity has come with an explosion in the number of protocols, tools, standards, architectures, middleware and platforms which have been developed to provide either vertical or horizontal solutions in many different domains [1,2]. IoT application development usually assumes that all the users participating in the process have analogous competencies and technological skills, this is not so, as role separation is a key concept in considering the multidiscipline perspective of IoT systems [4]. The expected benefits from concern separation and the consideration of higher modeling abstraction levels are lost. In this context, the adoption of the Teleo-Reactive (TR) approach is worthy to be explored for the specification of IoT systems. This paper presents the application of the TR approach as a way to facilitate the implementation of IoT systems

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