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Design and Evaluation of a Services Interface for the Internet of Things

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This paper proposes an application programming interface (API) for accessing services within the internet of things (IoT) through both REST and SOAP protocols. This API provides methods and procedures to allow its usage for performing IoT control and event monitoring operations. In order to encompass devices diversity, the proposed API introduces a uniform abstraction model that constitutes a common standard view to manage objects. An abstract device services interface is then available instead of device commands, thus providing transparent access to devices capabilities and hiding the physical aspects of provider devices. The API has been designed to ease the remote management of IoT smart objects and was implemented as a module of an existing IoT middleware (UIoT). Experimental evaluation of both protocol implementations yields results showing the REST services with faster response time and lower resources usage than similar SOAP services.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by “Programa de Financiación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Banco Santander para Grupos de Investigación UCM (Referencia: GR3/14)”. In addition, the authors wish to thank the Brazilian research, development and innovation Agencies CAPES (Grant FORTE 23038.007604/2014-69), FINEP (Grant RENASIC/PROTO 01.12.0555.00) and the National Post-Doctorate Program (PNPD/CAPES) for their support to this work.

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    Caio César de Melo Silva, Hiro Gabriel Cerqueira Ferreira, Rafael Timóteo de Sousa Júnior & Fábio Buiati

  2. Group of Analysis, Security and Systems (GASS), Department of Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (DISIA), Faculty of Information Technology and Computer Science, Office 431, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Calle Profesor José García Santesmases, 9, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    Luis Javier García Villalba

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de Melo Silva, C.C., Ferreira, H.G.C., de Sousa Júnior, R.T. et al. Design and Evaluation of a Services Interface for the Internet of Things. Wireless Pers Commun 91, 1711–1748 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-3168-6

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