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Mobile digcovery: discovering and interacting with the world through the Internet of things

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The application of Internet-enabled devices in the real world for the development of Smart Cities, environmental monitoring, bus tracking, and parking requires scalability, extensibility, and integration of emerging resources to reach a suitable ecosystem for data acquisition and interaction with citizens. Internet of things needs to offer efficient support for global communications and access to services and information. It needs to enable homogeneous and seamless machine-to-machine communication for different solutions and applications. This work presents an homogeneous and suitable mechanism for global resource discovery, device access for deployed smart objects in different scenarios, and sensors and devices from end users (participative sensing). The integration of legacy and sensors already available from smart buildings and smart objects is presented. For this purpose, a resolution infrastructure called “digcovery” is defined for maximizing efficiency and sustainability of deployments. Digcovery architecture offers the framework to allow users to register/include their own sensors into a common infrastructure and access/discover the available resources through mobile digcovery. Mobile digcovery exploits the context-awareness, geo-location, and identification technologies available in mobile platforms such as smartphones to discover, interact, and access the resources through its ElasticSearch engine.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been carried out by the excellence research group “Intelligent Systems and Telematics” granted from the Foundation Seneca (04552/GERM/06). The authors would like to thank the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education with the FPU program grant (AP2009-3981), the Ministry of Science and Innovation, through the Walkie-Talkie project (TIN2011- 27543-C03-02), the STREP European Projects “Universal Integration of the Internet of things through an IPv6-based service-oriented architecture enabling heterogeneous components interoperability (IoT6)” from the FP7 with the grant agreement no: 288445, “IPv6 ITS Station Stack (ITSSv6)” from the FP7 with the grant agreement no: 210519, and the GEN6 EU Project.

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    Antonio J. Jara, Pablo Lopez, David Fernandez, Jose F. Castillo, Miguel A. Zamora & Antonio F. Skarmeta

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Jara, A.J., Lopez, P., Fernandez, D. et al. Mobile digcovery: discovering and interacting with the world through the Internet of things. Pers Ubiquit Comput 18, 323–338 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-013-0648-0

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