An IoT-owned Service for Global IoT Device Discovery, Integration and (Re)use

Abstract

This paper introduces a novel IoT-owned service for Global IoT Device Discovery and Integration (GIDDI) of existing IoT devices that are owned and managed by different parties who are the IoT devices providers. The GIDDI service promotes the sharing of existing IoT devices and the deployment of new devices via a revenue generating scheme for the IoT device providers. Unlike existing IoT device discovery and integration solutions that are currently owned and/or controlled by specific IoT platform or service providers, the GIDDI service has been specifically designed to manage all the metadata needed for IoT device discovery and integration in a specialized blockchain (we refer to this as GIDDI Blockchain) and via this blockchain-based solution be IoT-owned (i.e., not owned or controlled by any specific provider). In addition to the GIDDI Blockchain, the GIDDI service includes a distributed GIDDI Marketplace that provides the functionality of IoT device discovery, integration and payment. The paper describes a proof-of-concept implementation of the GIDDI blockchain. It also provides an experimental evaluation of the GIDDI blockchain in variety of IoT device registration and query workloads. An evaluation of the proposed GIDDI service concludes the paper.