Role Of Middleware For Internet Of Things: A Study

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) has been recognized as a part of future internet and ubiquitous computing. It creates a true ubiquitous or smart environment. It demands a complex distributed architecture with numerous diverse components, including the end devices and application and association with their context. This article provides the significance of middleware system for (IoT). The middleware for IoT acts as a bond joining the heterogeneous domains of applications communicating over heterogeneous interfaces. First, to enable the better understanding of the current gap and future directions in this field a comprehensive review of the existing middleware systems for IoT is provided here. Second, fundamental functional blocks are proposed for this middleware system, and based on that feature wise classification is performed on the existing IoT-middleware. Third, open issues are analyzed and our vision on the research scope in this area is presented.

M2M solutions — Design challenges and considerations

“…Future standardization efforts might be more domain-driven say by utilities or transportation industry rather than as a general discipline. 'Role of Middleware for Internet of Things: A Study' [13] provides insights into a common middleware for connecting things to the Internet. A generic IoT-middleware system, applicable across domains by making all the functional components reusable, might look difficult to achieve but offers immense benefits.…”

Cooperative middleware platform as a service for internet of things applications

“…The functionalities required by IoT middleware systems are explained in detail in [2], [3], and [4]. In addition, challenges in developing middleware solutions for IoT are discussed in [5].…”

Towards an IoT ecosystem

“…One way of managing the complexity of building SoS like IoT systems is to provide a middleware platform that offers a set of services that fulfill the common non-functional requirements of such systems [9][10]:…”