TY - GEN
T1 - Managing IoT at the Edge
T2 - 3rd Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects, SMARTOBJECTS 2017
AU - Haus, Michael
AU - Ding, Aaron Yi
AU - Ott, Jörg
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/10/16
Y1 - 2017/10/16
N2 - Managing IoT devices in urban areas is becoming crucial because the majority of people living in cities and the number of deployed IoT devices are steadily increasing. In this paper we present iConfig, an edge-driven platform dedicated to manage IoT devices in smart cities. The goal is to address three major issues in current IoT management: registration, configuration, and maintenance. The core of iConfig is its programmable edge module, which can be deployed across smartphones, wearables, and smart boards to configure and interact with physically proximate IoT devices. Through testbed experiments and usability studies, we reveal the hardship and hidden pitfalls in managing IoT devices, especially for low budget devices like Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons. Our system evaluation shows that iConfig can e.ectively address the aforementioned IoT management challenges by harnessing the mobile and edge cooperation. To inspire community contributions, we further present concrete use cases to illustrate how iConfig can reduce operational cost and facilitate future edge-centric IoT research.
AB - Managing IoT devices in urban areas is becoming crucial because the majority of people living in cities and the number of deployed IoT devices are steadily increasing. In this paper we present iConfig, an edge-driven platform dedicated to manage IoT devices in smart cities. The goal is to address three major issues in current IoT management: registration, configuration, and maintenance. The core of iConfig is its programmable edge module, which can be deployed across smartphones, wearables, and smart boards to configure and interact with physically proximate IoT devices. Through testbed experiments and usability studies, we reveal the hardship and hidden pitfalls in managing IoT devices, especially for low budget devices like Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons. Our system evaluation shows that iConfig can e.ectively address the aforementioned IoT management challenges by harnessing the mobile and edge cooperation. To inspire community contributions, we further present concrete use cases to illustrate how iConfig can reduce operational cost and facilitate future edge-centric IoT research.
KW - IoT Configuration
KW - Management of Edge Devices
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040080731&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3127502.3127510
DO - 10.1145/3127502.3127510
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85040080731
T3 - SMARTOBJECTS 2017 - Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects, co-located with MobiCom 2017
SP - 41
EP - 46
BT - SMARTOBJECTS 2017 - Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Experiences with the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects, co-located with MobiCom 2017
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 16 October 2017
ER -
