A Systematic Mapping Study about IoT Platforms

Abstract

Today, specialized software (called IoT platforms or, alternatively, IoT middleware) is available to build and manage IoT solutions from scratch, without having to write endless lines of code. Unfortunately, the selection of the IoT platform that best fits the requirements of the application to be developed is not trivial and may take a long time. The challenge comes from the huge number of candidates available today. The present work aims to relieve IT developers of the need to take charge of the IoT platform selection process. A systematic mapping study (SMS) was carried out. The final finding was that, at present, ThingsBoard is the most mature open-source IoT platform to be used for the prototyping of IoT applications without having to be an expert programmer.

Keywords

• internet of things
• IoT platform
• middleware
• prototyping
• ThingsBoard
• systematic mapping study