Design of semantic information broker for localized computing environments in the internet of things

Abstract

Emerging communication technologies of the Internet of Things (IoT) make all the devices of a spatial-limited physical computing environment locally interconnected as well as connected to the Internet. Software agents running on devices make the latter “smart objects” that are visible in our daily lives as real participating entities. Based on the M3 architecture for smart spaces, we consider the problem of creating a smart space deploying a Semantic Information Broker (SIB) in a localized IoT-environment. SIB supports agent interaction in the smart space via sharing and self-generating information and its semantics. This paper proposes a renewed SIB design with increased extensibility, dependability, and portability. The research done is a step towards an efficient open interoperability platform for the smart space application development.

Keywords

• Smart Spaces
• Internet of Things
• Ubiquitous computing
• Smart-M3
• SIB
• Semantic Web