Proceedings (Oct 2018)

Real-Time Primitives for CoAP: Extending the Use of IoT for Time Constraint Applications for Social Good

  • Gabriel M. Eggly,
  • Mariano Finochietto,
  • Emmanouil Dimogerontakis,
  • Rodrigo M. Santos,
  • Javier Orozco,
  • Roc Meseguer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2191257
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 19
p. 1257

Abstract

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Internet of Things (IoT) have become a hot topic since the official introduction of IPv6. Research on Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN) move towards IoT as the communication platform and support provided by the TCP/UDP/IP stack provides a wide variety of services. The communication protocols need to be designed in such a way that even simple microcontrollers with small amount of memory and processing speed can be interconnected in a network. For this different protocols have been proposed. The most extended ones, MQTT and CoAP, represent two different paradigms. In this paper, we present a CoAP extension to support soft real-time communications among sensors, actuators and users. The extension facilitates the instrumentation of applications oriented to improve the quality of life of vulnerable communities contributing to the social good.

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