Towards Standard M2M APIs for Cloud-based Telco Service Platforms

Abstract

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication technologies is emerging as one of the major trends shaping the development of services in the Future Internet sector. Additionally, cloud computing technologies have been utilized in building large-scale M2M systems, as they could potentially offer more advance solutions for managing data monitoring and service elasticity to support the needs of different consumers. Today, service providers are building a new eco-system with partner vendors to offer new innovative services for Smart Cities. From the users/applications perspective, three concepts aim to deliver Smart service: M2M communication, ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence. In this paper we identify the requirements for centric service enablers to support the development of desired Smart Cities systems. Also the paper reviews the ongoing work in standardization organizations in this field. Providing standard interfaces to M2M platforms in a network independent way will allow applications deployment by 3rd party developers across variety of end user devices.

Application-derived communication protocol selection in M2M platforms for smart cities

“…The Providing APIs is crucial for the development innovative services in the FI, and with consideration of the huge heterogeneity nature of networks and devices in the M2M platform, the need of standard interfaces to M2M platforms is more clear [35].…”

“…Study of Smart City service's requirements from the perspective of the network operator, service provider, service developer, and end user, which characterize an executable practice for Smart City. Findings of this step are published in [24,35,36,37,29].…”

“…In the course of the research for this dissertation, several related publications have been disseminated that present the work within the topic of interest: eight conference papers reecting the main contributions ( [42,43,5,32,45,46,40,39]), one book chapter ( [190]) and six conference papers about related elds of application in the context of Smart City services ( [24,31,35,29,38,176]), and seven joint papers with other research projects members ( [191,136,36,37,43,44,192] open research issues to be addressed for the realization of this device-tier interaction [194]. However, it shall bring signicant improvements in developing emergency applications and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication.…”

From WSN towards WoT: Open API Scheme Based on oneM2M Platforms

“…Fraunhofer FOKUS’s team developed its own M2M platform (called OpenMTC) together with a set of REST APIs that enable third party applications to access the platform [22]. Recently, they introduced standard M2M APIs for the cloud-based Teclo service platform [23] and extended the OpenMTC architecture to support a software development kit (SDK) that enables third party developers to create their own M2M applications [24]. Liu et al proposed an efficient naming, addressing, and profile services in IoT environments with a middleware platform, called NAPS, and a unique device naming and addressing convention [25].…”

On web-based domain-specific language for Internet of Things

“…And this information is critical for many algorithms. Figure 1 illustrates the basic data model behind FI-WARE project [15]. Obviously, remote devices (sensors) may generate a big amount of data.…”