Mobile Digcovery: A Global Service Discovery for the Internet of Things

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) enables a homogeneous and seamless machine to machine (M2M) between any Internet-enabled devices in the real world. IoT provides global communications, access to services and information for the development of Smart Cities, environmental monitoring, bus tracking and parking. For this purpose, IoT requires scalability, extensibility, and integration of emerging resources in order to reach a suitable ecosystem for data acquisition and interaction with the citizens. This work presents a way to interact with the IoT through a homogeneous and suitable mechanism for the global resource discovery of devices and sensors on different scenarios. For discovery purpose, a infrastructure called "digcovery" is defined for maximizing efficiency and sustainability of deployments offering the framework to allow users to register/include their own sensors into a common infrastructure, and access/discover the available resources through a mobile phone. This presents how to use the smartphone capabilities, in terms of identification, geo-location and context-awareness, to access and interact with the available resources that are surrounding us.