ThingsDriver
ThingsDriver: A Unified Interoperable Driver for IoT Nodes
Objective
ThingsDriver is a new methodology in how we can govern IoT devices. When we connect a device such as a printer to the local personal computer (PC), the PC requires installing the printer driver to get the printer configurations. ThingsDriver adopts the same concept, where IoT devices in the thingsDriver architecture are extendable from the cloud, and the cloud needs the IoT devices driver to govern them. Looking at IoT devices as extendable components from the cloud can pave the way for a collaborative IoT environment.
Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the fastest-growing technologies in recent years. However, many IoT service providers design their IoT solutions with non-interoperable hard-ware, scenario-specific features, and unique architectures that make these deployments fragmented rather than collaborative. Collaborative IoT (C-IoT) systems are considered the natural evolution of the traditional IoT. Sharing the infrastructure is one of the main concepts that C-IoT depends on to create a collaborative environment between different applications. With the current fragmented IoT, these applications cannot share their infrastructure and data due to the lack of standards to organize the C-IoT space. In this paper, we introduced Unified Interoperable Driver for IoT (UIDI) nodes. UIDI uses a novel programming methodology that enables node interpreters to provide general-purpose firmware for IoT nodes. UIDI allows the users to configure IoT nodes according to their usage, preferences, and needs through the cloud. We developed a proof-of-concept prototype to demonstrate the feasibility and usability of the proposed UIDI using NodeMCU and Arduino-Uno. The performance of UIDI outperforms Firmata by 27%. In addition to that, the UIDI platform is a standalone node that connects directly to the cloud, whereas the Firmata node requires a host to be accessible from the cloud.
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