A framework proposal to facilitate the development of IoT-based applications
Internet of Things, Framework, Simplifcation, Development, Application, Virtualization
Recent years have been marked by a growing advance in embedded computing, sensoring
technologies and connected devices. Such an advance has had a signicant and expressive
impact on innovative paradigms such as the Internet of Things (IoT), which believes that
intelligent objects capable of connecting in the network can cooperate among each other
to achieve a common goal. Such growth has leveraged supplier initiatives to produce
protocols and communication standards that would enable such cooperation, however,
the considerable diversity of devices and consequently protocols that have emerged have
made this process dicult, creating numerous challenges, including heterogeneity and
interoperability. These challenges have made the IoT application development process a
complex and costly task, since the capabilities of these protocols and standards aimed at
discovering the devices on the network, communication among them, have become quite
specic for each device, forcing the developer to create complex integration strategies to
deal with this limitation. In this way, this work proposes a textit framework that will seek
to simplify the process of development of IoT applications through device virtualization, so
that heterogeneous aspects connected to devices will be abstracted by this virtualization,
and common operations of protocols such as discovery of devices and communication with
them will be abstracted through a common interface between them, integrating them and
reducing the impacts of the heterogeneous characteristics.