Management architecture for heterogeneous IoT devices in home network

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is being hailed as the next industrial revolution and it promises billion of IoT devices connected to the Internet in the near future. Emerging networking and back-end support technologies not only have to anticipate this dramatic increase in connected devices, but also the heterogeneity of devices. To this end, a management architecture which combines current management approaches to manage devices in the home network is presented. By inheriting advantages of these approaches, the proposed architecture is able to support multiple device classes, enables management services for time sensitive devices and sleepy devices, mitigates home gateway bottleneck issues and enables local management in the home network. To validate this architecture, a prototype based on the proposed architecture for managing ECHONET LITE devices and Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) enabled devices was developed.