COSC1301: IoT Interoperability Through Smartphone-Based Gateways

This project proposes a smartphone-based mobile gateway to enable interoperability between various IoT devices and the Internet, addressing the challenge of differing standards and communication technologies. The research aims to create a flexible and transparent interface between IoT devices and the Internet, supported by a unified and extendible software architecture. This architecture facilitates IoT discovery, control, and management, along with data processing and collection functionalities. The proposal reviews existing literature on interoperability issues and software architectures for smartphone-based gateways, considering energy consumption and resource occupancy. The methodology employs a positivism research philosophy and a deductive approach, utilizing secondary data collection to analyze information and support the development of the proposed solution. Desklib provides access to similar assignments and resources for students.

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Research proposal: Enabling IoT interoperability through opportunistic smartphone-based
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1. Problem statement
In the near future, all the things as well as objects that will be connected with the Web as
well as will further get equipped with proper processing, sensing as well as acting capabilities for
exploiting the full potential advantages of IoT. In this particular context, it is found that
interoperability between various standards and communication technologies is still considered as
one of the significant challenges. In order to resolve this challenge, it is needed to propose a
smart phone based mobile gateway which generally act as a flexible as well as interface that is
transparent among various IoT devices as well the Internet.
2. Research aim and objective
2.1 Research aim
The main of the project is to enable IoT interoperability with the help of opportunistic
smartphone based mobile gateway.
2.2 Research objectives
The research objectives are:
 To propose a smartphone based mobile gateway which act like one of the transparent and
flexible interfaces among the Internet and IoT related devices.
 To present a unified as well as the software architecture which is extendible that helps in
supporting IoT discovery, control as well as management that is coupled with proper
processing of data as well as collection functionalities.
2.3 Research questions:
1. How a smartphone based mobile gateway will act as one of the transparent and flexible
interfaces between the Internet and IoT devices?

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2. How an extendible and unified software architecture can help in supporting IoT discovery?
3. Literature review
According to Aloi et al. (2017), lack of interoperability generally causes different types
of technological business-related issues including the impossibility to plug non interoperable IoT
devices in to IoT based platform that is proper heterogeneous. In addition to this, it also causes
impossibility of developing IoT applications that further exploits different platforms in
homogeneous cross domains.
On the other hand, it is stated by Kolias et al. (2017) that development of proper
software architecture is done for successfully supporting smartphone-based gateway application.
It is found that a real testbed is generally implemented for measuring the performances of
different solution that is proposed in context to consumption of energy as well as resource
occupancy in various load conditions that mainly aims to draw significant discussion on the
feasibility of that type of integrated architecture that is communication based.

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(Figure: General communication based architecture)

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(Figure: Specific implementation of the smartphone centric gateway application)
It is opined by Kelly, Suryadevara and Mukhopadhyay (2013) that the architecture which
is implemented for the multi technology and multi standard related interoperation generally helps
in presenting a reduced utilization of resources that is hardware-based in front of relatively high
amount of consumption of energy and this is mainly due to active radio interfaces that is mainly
combined with high consumption of energy.

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4. Methodology
The paper utilizes positivism as the research philosophy as with the help of positivism,
the data and information associated with the research can be collected securely (Joslin & Muller,
2015). On the other hand, deductive approach is used so that the researchers can be capable of
analyzing information which will further help in enabling IoT interoperability with the help of
opportunistic smartphone based mobile gateway. In addition to this, secondary data collection
method is mainly used for gathering information related with the research.
5. Timeline of the research

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References
Aloi, G., Caliciuri, G., Fortino, G., Gravina, R., Pace, P., Russo, W., & Savaglio, C. (2017).
Enabling IoT interoperability through opportunistic smartphone-based mobile
gateways. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 81, 74-84.
Joslin, R., & Müller, R. (2015). Relationships between a project management methodology and
project success in different project governance contexts. International journal of project
management, 33(6), 1377-1392.
Kelly, S. D. T., Suryadevara, N. K., & Mukhopadhyay, S. C. (2013). Towards the
implementation of IoT for environmental condition monitoring in homes. IEEE sensors
journal, 13(10), 3846-3853.
Kolias, C., Kambourakis, G., Stavrou, A., & Voas, J. (2017). DDoS in the IoT: Mirai and other
botnets. Computer, 50(7), 80-84.