Journal of Mobile, Embedded and Distributed Systems, vol. V, no. 3, 2013ISSN 2067 – 4074www.jmeds.eu
Approaches on Internet of Things Solutions
2013
Journal of Mobile, Embedded and Distributed Systems 5(3) 124-129
http://jmeds.eu/index.php/jmeds/article/view/105
Bucharest, Romania
Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem is presented with its features and particularities in the first
section of the paper. In the second section are presented the technical terminology and how inter-domain
technologies such as: Internet/Semantic and Middleware, RFID/NFC and Smart Objects-embedded devices are
linked together. The paper shows an implementation of the authentication procedure with a proximity tag/card
implemented in Java SE, in the third section. The conclusions are presented in the fourth section and they
describe the opportunity to develop a proof of concept project, which may have multiple implementations.
Key-Words: Sensors Authentication, IoT (Internet of Things), Supply Chain Management Security
1. IoT (Internet of Things) Ecosystem Intro
The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) is related
to uniquely identifiable objects and their virtual
representations in a structure similar with the
Internet [1]. This new concept is an innovative
solution to realize a quantitative analysis of all
the things that surround us. A prerequisite
needed for the Internet of Things is the radiofrequency identification (RFID). If all objects and
people in real life were equipped with identifiers
and smart-tags, they could be managed and
inventoried by computers [2].
People have limited time, attention and accuracy,
so that they are not very good at capturing and
storing information about all the things from the
real world (even if we include 2D barcodes used
for Automatic Data Acquisition applications). An
alternative view on IoT, from the Semantic Web
perspective, focuses instead on making all things
addressable by the existing naming protocols,
such as URI (this refer to other things than those
electronic, smart, or RFID-enabled). The objects
themselves can be referred for the moment by
other agents, for example by powerful centralized
servers acting for their human owners, without
conversion.
In [3] is considered that the Internet of Things is
the network of physical objects that contain
integrated technology to communicate and sense
or to interact with their internal states or the
external environment.
The Internet of Things is a revolutionary concept
that is for the moment at the beginning, in the
incipient phase, but which will become in few
years an important research subject.
Figure 1 below present the concept of Internet of
Things and the connection between all involved
components.
For the development of all the applications of the
Internet of Things is compulsory to develop a
range of technologies and solutions, in which
free and open software plays an important role,
providing both hardware architecture and open
source software, such as development
environments, that allows the development of
open source applications for the Internet of
Things.
2. IoT Technical Details
The IoT is composed of many sensors,
application platforms, user platforms, and so on,
creating a community ecosystem. A sensor is a
component that collects and delivers information
about things in a specified area. By building a
shared common platform such as IoT will create
a richer ecosystem for all the people, by enabling
the development of innovative systems to focus
on the value-added of the human physical touch
points of connected objects and the services that
manage these objects [4].
The Internet of Things means to connect in realtime people and objects from the real physical
world together in a network of sensing,
reasoning, and action. The IoT connects people
and things together with software products and
applications.
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- ↑ Cristian Toma, Cristian Ciurea, Ion Ivan – Authentication Issues for Sensors in IoT Solutions, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Security for Information Technology and Communications (SECITC'13), June 25-26, 2013, Bucharest, Romania, ASE Printing House, ISSN 2285-1798, ISSN-L 2285-1798.
- ↑ Wikipedia, Internet of Things, Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things
- ↑ Open Smart Cities I: Open Source Internet of Things, Available at: http://observatorio.cenatic.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=807:open-smart-cities-i-open-internet-of-things&catid=94:tecnologia&Itemid=137
- ↑ Michael Koster, Data models for the Internet of Things, Available at: http://iot-datamodels.blogspot.ro/
