An extensible agent toolkit for device management

Abstract

The advent of multiple connected and interoperating devices is becoming almost commonplace in the modern lifestyle. The management of these devices is an important asset for providing acceptable services to end users. Novel approaches are being developed that respect the communication, processing and power capacities of these limited devices. One of these approaches is the SyncML Device Management. in this paper, we present an open-source agent toolkit built around the SyncML model and evaluate the performance and cost of this approach in the context of limited devices supposed to host management agents.