One Remote Control to Command Them all! Building a Hypermedia API for ESP8266-Based Devices

Abstract

Lack of commonly accepted standards for the connected devices' APls caused the situation when each manufacturer creates its own mobile application to control their devices. We propose an approach to the design of a self-descriptive CoAP­based API using Hydra Core Vocabulary (bttp://hydra-cg.com) which allows to ereate an adsptive mobile application to control any device. In this paper we describe the approach, evaluate it on two exemplified devices build using ESP8266 Wi-Fi module and describe the architecture of a mobile application controlling these devices.

Keywords

• Internet of Things
• ESP8266
• Hypermedia API
• Mobile application