EasyConnect: A Management System for IoT Devices and Its Applications for Interactive Design and Art

TLDR

IoT technologies are widely applied in domains such as finance, logistics, crowd management, and interactive art, prompting ETSI to define an end‑to‑end M2M architecture for device management. The authors develop an IoT EasyConnect system to manage devices based on the ETSI architecture. The system represents each device by its features (e.g., temperature, vibration, display) and constructs network applications by assembling modular feature‑specific software components. Using this feature‑based modular approach, the authors demonstrate that brick‑like software modules enable simple and efficient development of IoT device applications and interactions.

Abstract

Many Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have been used in applications for money flow, logistics flow, people flow, interactive art design, and so on. To manage these increasing disparate devices and connectivity options, ETSI has specified end-to-end machine-to-machine (M2M) system architecture for IoT applications. Based on this architecture, we develop an IoT EasyConnect system to manage IoT devices. In our approach, an IoT device is characterized by its "features" (e.g., temperature, vibration, and display) that are manipulated by the network applications. If a network application handles the individual device features independently, then we can write a software module for each device feature, and the network application can be simply constructed by including these brick-like device feature modules. Based on the concept of device feature, brick-like software modules can provide simple and efficient mechanism to develop IoT device applications and interactions.