An Energy Efficient Layer for Event-Based Communications in Web-of-Things Frameworks

Abstract

Abstract. Leveraging on the Web-of-Things (WoT) allows to standardize the access of things from an application level point of view. The protocols of the Web and especially HTTP are offering new ways to build mashups of things consisting of sensors and actuators. Two communication protocols are now emerging in the WoT domain for event-based data exchange, namely WebSockets and RESTful APIs. In this work, we motivate and demonstrate the use of a hybrid layer able to choose dynamically the most energy efficient protocol.