A Role-Based Approach for Orchestrating Emergent Configurations in the Internet of Things

Platform Interoperability

While protocols such as MQTT provide a straightforward manner to ensure communication (message passing) between devices that are connected to the same platform, the same does not hold when one attempts to connect devices registered to different platforms. Moreover, it proves to be challenging to redirect sensor data streams to a platform other than the one where the respective sensor has been registered. This is often the case because the business model of the platform providers is to establish themselves as the IoT hub, paying little attention to platform interoperability issues. We hypothesize that platforms designed with the specific goal of interfacing and bringing together data from different platforms will be instrumental in the coming years. The Crossbreed platform has been suggested as one such attempt to bridge this gap.

providing computational building blocks to ease manipulating, processing and fusing data stream before the data is stored to the DB

types of fees

protocols: mobile operators are expected to play an increasingly important role in IoT platforms with the coming of LTE for IoTprotocols, which are deemed to enable long range, low power, large scale sensor deployments, by connecting them directly to the existing BTS infrastructure.

The notion of commitments can be included as part of the larger context of normative MAS , where some form of regulations (e.g. externally imposed or mutually agreed) are enforced onto the agents’ behavior. In addition, normative systems also provide the sanctions against violations of the enforced behavior, based on which agents can decide whether to comply with these norms or not. To this end, several normative languages have been proposed with varying degrees of complexity. For instance, a normative language based on deontic logic with deadline operators is introduced in , relying on concepts such as obligations, permissions and prohibitions. Similarly, in , the authors formalize an electronic contracting language, introducing clauses within contracts for the parties involved. We further refer the reader to for a comprehensive survey on normative MAS. Now, given that ECs imply temporary (often short-lived) cooperation between IoT devices with varying degrees of processing capabilities, we resort here to commitments as a simple and basic means of managing interaction.

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