scholarly journals Data Spine: A Federated Interoperability Enabler for Heterogeneous IoT Platform Ecosystems

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 4010
Author(s):  
Rohit A. Deshmukh ◽  
Dileepa Jayakody ◽  
Alexander Schneider ◽  
Violeta Damjanovic-Behrendt
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Single Sign On ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
Iot Platform ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
Iot Platforms ◽  
Platform Ecosystems ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Today, the Internet of Things (IoT) is pervasive and characterized by the rapid growth of IoT platforms across different application domains, enabling a variety of business models and revenue streams. This opens new opportunities for companies to extend their collaborative networks and develop innovative cross-platform and cross-domain applications. However, the heterogeneity of today’s platforms is a major roadblock for mass creation of IoT platform ecosystems, pointing at the current absence of technology enablers for an easy and innovative composition of tools/services from the existing platforms. In this paper, we present the Data Spine, a federated platform enabler that bridges IoT interoperability gaps and enables the creation of an ecosystem of heterogeneous IoT platforms in the manufacturing domain. The Data Spine allows the ecosystem to be extensible to meet the need for incorporating new tools/services and platforms. We present a reference implementation of the Data Spine and a quantitative evaluation to demonstrate adequate performance of the system. The evaluation suggests that the Data Spine provides a multitude of advantages (single sign-on, provision of a low-code development environment to support interoperability and an easy and intuitive creation of cross-platform applications, etc.) over the traditional approach of users joining multiple platforms separately.

Internet of Things (IoT) Interoperability Success Criteria

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-105
Author(s):  
Hany Abdelghaffar ◽  
Mohamed Abousteit
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Business Value ◽  
Digital Service ◽  
Iot Platform ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Iot Platforms ◽  
Technical Factors ◽  
The Internet Of Things

To deliver more value to customers, companies are striving to offer more digital services, and the internet of things (IOT) is the main enabler to maximize such value. However, one of the major challenges companies are facing is digital service integration with other providers, where IoT platform is playing important role to achieve such integration opening door for interoperability within actors in the IoT ecosystem. There have been a little research addressing IoT platforms interoperability from business value perspective, considering technical and non-technical factors as selection criteria to adopt such platforms. This paper uses a case study as a method. To validate the suggested interoperability criteria, interviews were conducted for IoT platform providers and two things providers. It was observed that considering technical factors alone when selecting IoT platform make companies oversee the value technology add to their business as IoT platform is not only about technology but also about business model in which this platform will be operating and the company position and role in IoT ecosystem. The paper contributes by providing criteria to achieve interoperability for IoT platform from both technical and business aspects.

scholarly journals “Mobility as a Service” Platforms: A Critical Path towards Increasing the Sustainability of Transportation Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Oliveira Cruz ◽  
Joaquim Miranda Sarmento
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Critical Path ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Home Work ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Urban mobility is experiencing a profound change. Mobility patterns are becoming more complex, and typical home–work–home travel is no longer the rule, as journeys tend to connect multiple points in a rather inconstant pattern. This has changed the approach to transport planning. Existing transportation planning and operation approaches have been focussed on the ability to identify and forecast typical home–work/school–home travel and subsequently plan the transport system accordingly. The traditional approach has been: Forecast - > plan - > deliver. New mobility patterns and mobility solutions are characterised by greater flexibility, taking advantage of the “sharing concept” and simultaneously providing solutions that have lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These dynamics and an evolving environment raise several new challenges at different levels, fostering the development of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). This system transforms the physical transportation system into a commodity and takes advantage of the internet of things (IoT). However, the onset of MaaS solutions is anything but linear. Several business models have emerged, with different partners originating from different industries (e.g., technological, transport operators, infrastructure managers, etc.) developing their own solutions, often in competition with others. It is not unusual to find different MaaS solutions in the same city, which integrate different solutions. This paper intends to provide an analysis on the main challenges affecting mobility in general, and MaaS in particular, as well as the main business models used for delivering MaaS solutions. The paper uses a case study in Lisbon to illustrate some of the challenges.

scholarly journals Developing Secure IoT Services: A Security-Oriented Review of IoT Platforms

Symmetry ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Díaz López ◽  
María Blanco Uribe ◽  
Claudia Santiago Cely ◽  
Daniel Tarquino Murgueitio ◽  
Edwin Garcia Garcia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Specific Service ◽  
Smart Objects ◽  
Common Criteria ◽  
Iot Platform ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Iot Platforms ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Undoubtedly, the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has impacted on our every-day life, surrounding us with smart objects. Thus, the potentialities of this new market attracted the industry, so that many enterprises developed their own IoT platforms aiming at helping IoT services’ developers. In the multitude of possible platforms, selecting the most suitable to implement a specific service is not straightforward, especially from a security perspective. This paper analyzes some of the most prominent proposals in the IoT platforms market-place, performing an in-depth security comparison using five common criteria. These criteria are detailed in sub-criteria, so that they can be used as a baseline for the development of a secure IoT service. Leveraging the knowledge gathered from our in-depth study, both researchers and developers may select the IoT platform which best fits their needs. Additionally, an IoT service for monitoring commercial flights is implemented in two previously analyzed IoT platforms, giving an adequate detail level to represent a solid guideline for future IoT developers.

scholarly journals “Mobility as a Service” Platforms: Using Digitalization to Increase the Sustainability of Transportation Systems

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Oliveira Cruz ◽  
Joaquim Miranda Sarmento
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Home Work ◽  
The One ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Urban mobility is experiencing a profound change. On the one hand, mobility patterns are becoming more complex, and typical home-work-home travel is no longer the rule, as journeys now tend to connect multiple points in a rather inconstant pattern. This has changed the approach to transport planning, in that the existing transportation planning and operation approaches have been focussed on the ability to identify typical home-work/school-home travel and subsequently plan the transport system accordingly. The traditional approach has been: forecast -> plan -> deliver, as new mobility solutions are emerging. These are characterised by greater flexibility, in that they take advantage of the “sharing concept” and simultaneously provide solutions that have lower GHG emissions. Urban mobility follows a fuzzier pattern, with even the urban transportation system behaving like an active organism, where solutions are often quickly replaced. This dynamic and evolving environment raises several new challenges at different levels. The best digital solution system is the Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) one. This system transforms the physical transportation system into a commodity and takes advantage of the internet of things (IoT). However, the onset of MaaS solutions is anything but linear. Several business models have emerged, with different partners originating from different industries (e.g., technological, transport operators, infrastructure managers, etc.) developing their own solutions, often in competition with others. It is not unusual to find different MaaS solutions in the same city, which integrate different solutions.

scholarly journals A Semantic-Enabled Platform for Realizing an Interoperable Web of Things

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Lanza ◽  
Luis Sánchez ◽  
David Gómez ◽  
Juan Ramón Santana ◽  
Pablo Sotres
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Market Potential ◽  
Data Interoperability ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
Vertical Data ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Nowadays, the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem is experiencing a lack of interoperability across the multiple competing platforms that are available. Consequently, service providers can only access vertical data silos that imply high costs and jeopardize their solutions market potential. It is necessary to transform the current situation with competing non-interoperable IoT platforms into a common ecosystem enabling the emergence of cross-platform, cross-standard, and cross-domain IoT services and applications. This paper presents a platform that has been implemented for realizing this vision. It leverages semantic web technologies to address the two key challenges in expanding the IoT beyond product silos into web-scale open ecosystems: data interoperability and resources identification and discovery. The paper provides extensive description of the proposed solution and its implementation details. Regarding the implementation details, it is important to highlight that the platform described in this paper is currently supporting the federation of eleven IoT deployments (from heterogeneous application domains) with over 10,000 IoT devices overall which produce hundreds of thousands of observations per day.

IoT Platform Business Model for Innovative Management Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. 2050030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shrutika Mishra ◽  
A. R. Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
Cutting Edge ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Business Culture ◽  
Internet Of Everything ◽  
Iot Platform ◽  
Innovative Management ◽  
Iot Platforms ◽  
Technology And Communication ◽  
Business And Management ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Internet of Everything (IoE) in the business is a multiple and distributed interconnection of strategies and devices over the Internet. It is a group of technology which requires a set of protocols, data server storage strategy, infrastructure mechanism, integration of all technology, and communication protocols with all the connecting devices. The Internet of Things (IoT) is likely to convey accelerative, innovative, encouraging elucidations in numerous domains including business and managements. It allows devices to communicate with us very efficiently and accomplish the decisions with applications with other devices. The IoT creates transforming businesses, financial prudence and business culture. IoT platforms with greater access 5G technology are evolving as the upcoming tools and substantial support in the global IoEs setup in business ecosystem. In this paper, we examine up-to-date landscape of IoT platforms, 5G technology scope for business and management to how they work and the main aspects to consider when choosing a platform provider for cutting-edge decisions. It involves a set of approaches for business behaviors of the IoT and IoE classification, which can be defined as IoE business outlines in the cutting edge 5G technology.

scholarly journals What Is an Open IoT Platform? Insights from a Systematic Mapping Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bahtijar Vogel ◽  
Yuji Dong ◽  
Blerim Emruli ◽  
Paul Davidsson ◽  
Romina Spalazzese
Keyword(s):  
Open Data ◽  
Systematic Mapping Study ◽  
Mapping Study ◽  
Exclusion Criteria ◽  
Systematic Mapping ◽  
Iot Platform ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Iot Platforms ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Today, the Internet of Things (IoT) is mainly associated with vertically integrated systems that often are closed and fragmented in their applicability. To build a better IoT ecosystem, the open IoT platform has become a popular term in the recent years. However, this term is usually used in an intuitive way without clarifying the openness aspects of the platforms. The goal of this paper is to characterize the openness types of IoT platforms and investigate what makes them open. We conducted a systematic mapping study by retrieving data from 718 papers. As a result of applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 221 papers were selected for review. We discovered 46 IoT platforms that have been characterized as open, whereas 25 platforms are referred as open by some studies rather than the platforms themselves. We found that the most widely accepted and used open IoT platforms are NodeMCU and ThingSpeak that together hold a share of more than 70% of the declared open IoT platforms in the selected papers. The openness of an IoT platform is interpreted into different openness types. Our study results show that the most common openness type encountered in open IoT platforms is open-source, but also open standards, open APIs, open data and open layers are used in the literature. Finally, we propose a new perspective on how to define openness in the context of IoT platforms by providing several insights from the different stakeholder viewpoints.

Token-based cross domain single sign on

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1766-1768
Author(s):  
Guo-wei WANG ◽  
Man-jun XUE
Keyword(s):  
Single Sign On ◽  
Cross Domain

scholarly journals Towards the cross-domain interoperability of IoT platforms

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergios Soursos ◽  
Ivana Podnar Zarko ◽  
Patrick Zwickl ◽  
Ivan Gojmerac ◽  
Giuseppe Bianchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cross Domain ◽  
Iot Platforms ◽  
The Cross

IoT-based Precision Agriculture Platform: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1419-1421
Author(s):  
Rutvik Solanki
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Iot Platforms ◽  
High Level ◽  
New Applications ◽  
And Control ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Abstract: Technological advancements such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are helping to boost the global agricultural sector as it is expected to grow by around seventy percent in the next two decades. There are sensor-based systems in place to keep track of the plants and the surrounding environment. This technology allows farmers to watch and control farm operations from afar, but it has a few limitations. For farmers, these technologies are prohibitively expensive and demand a high level of technological competence. Besides, Climate change has a significant impact on crops because increased temperatures and changes in precipitation patterns increase the likelihood of disease outbreaks, resulting in crop losses and potentially irreversible plant destruction. Because of recent advancements in IoT and Cloud Computing, new applications built on highly innovative and scalable service platforms are now being developed. The use of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions has enormous promise for improving the quality and safety of agricultural products. Precision farming's telemonitoring system relies heavily on Internet of Things (IoT) platforms; therefore, this article quickly reviews the most common IoT platforms used in precision agriculture, highlighting both their key benefits and drawbacks

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