Collaboration of Smart IoT Devices Exemplified With Smart Cupboards

Abstract

The variety of smart things connected to Internet hampers the possibility of having a stand-alone solution for service-centric provisioning in the Internet of Things (IoT). The different features of smart objects in processing capabilities, memory, and size make it difficult for final users to learn the installation and usage of all these devices in collaboration with other IoT objects, hindering the user experience. In this context, we propose a collaboration mechanism for IoT devices based on the multi-agent systems with mobile agents. This paper illustrates the current approach with smart cupboards for potentially tracking memory losses. The user study revealed that users found working products of this approach usable, easy-to-learn and useful, and they agreed that the current approach could provide a high quality of experience not only in the specific case of service-centric IoT devices for tracking memory losses but also in other domains. The learning capability by means of this approach was showed with significant reductions of reaction times and number of errors over the first and second tests with the current approach. System response times were appropriate for both continuous rendering and presenting the classification results. The usage of RAM memory was also adequate for the common actual devices.

Keywords

• IoT
• user experience
• smart object
• collaboration
• smart cupboard