An Ad-Hoc Smart Gateway Platform for the Web of Things

D. Carlson; B. Altakrouri; A. Schrader

doi:10.1109/GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom.2013.115

An Ad-Hoc Smart Gateway Platform for the Web of Things

D. Carlson, B. Altakrouri, A. Schrader

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The Web of Things (WoT) aims to extend the Web into the physical world by promoting the adoption of Web protocols by situated services and smart objects (ambient artifacts). However, real-world ambient artifacts often adopt proprietary and/or non-Web protocols, making them invisible to Web search engines and inaccessible to conventional Web agents. Smart Gateways have been proposed as a way to "Web-enable" proprietary ambient artifacts through intermediary proxy nodes, however, the requisite infrastructure is difficult to deploy at Web scale. To address such challenges, we are developing Ambient Dynamix (Dynamix): a plug-and-play context framework for mobile devices, which enables Web agents to interoperate with non-Web ambient artifacts - directly from the browser. In this paper, we describe how Dynamix can be used to transform the user's device into an ad-hoc Smart Gateway in-situ, enabling Web applications (in the device's browser) to seamlessly interact with non-Web ambient artifacts in the physical environment. We describe an operational prototype implementation, which enables Web apps to discover and control nearby UPnP and AirPlay media devices uniformly. We also present a performance evaluation that indicates the prototype imposes low processing and memory overhead, and is suitable for deployment on many commodity mobile devices.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications and IEEE Internet of Things and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing
Number of pages	7
Place of Publication	Beijing, China
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	01.08.2013
Pages	619-625
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-7695-5046-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom.2013.115
Publication status	Published - 01.08.2013
Event	2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications and IEEE Internet of Things and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom 2013 - Beijing, China Duration: 20.08.2013 → 23.08.2013

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Carlson, D, Altakrouri, B & Schrader, A 2013, An Ad-Hoc Smart Gateway Platform for the Web of Things. in 2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications and IEEE Internet of Things and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing. Physical and Social Computing, IEEE, Beijing, China, pp. 619-625, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications and IEEE Internet of Things and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom 2013, Beijing, China, 20.08.13. https://doi.org/10.1109/GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom.2013.115

An Ad-Hoc Smart Gateway Platform for the Web of Things. / Carlson, D.; Altakrouri, B.; Schrader, A.
2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications and IEEE Internet of Things and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing. Beijing, China: IEEE, 2013. p. 619-625 (Physical and Social Computing).

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