Lightweight Service Mashup Middleware With REST Style Architecture for IoT Applications

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) can provide new value-added service by connecting the physical devices to virtual environments association with their context, and there is also a huge demand in ad hoc services by the end users for IoT applications. By extending mashup concept into IoT applications, we can achieve a novel and more lightweight services creation approach. This paper proposes a lightweight IoT service mashup middleware based on REST-style architecture for IoT applications, and design an uniform sensor devices access and dynamically protocol stack management framework, propose a distributed publish/subscribe based messages distribution service, and situational IoT services mashup approach, which can be integrated easily to create new composite and situational applications, and also apply the REST principles to define an extensible interface to build comprehensive and situational mashup applications. Based on proposed service mashup middleware, the end user can integrate applications and services in a more lightweight manner. We also illustrated the scenarios for RESTful Web service mashups representing for coal mine safety monitoring and control automation. In the experiments, the end-user evaluation has been conducted to evaluate the middleware, and also the performance has been measured and analyzed.