Remote networking technology for IoT: Cloud-based access for AllJoyn-enabled devices

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a vision of a future communication between users, systems, and daily objects performing sensing and actuating capabilities with the goal to bring unprecedented convenience and economical benefits. Today, a wide variety of developed solutions for IoT can be seen through the all industry fields. Each of the developed systems is based on the proprietary SW implementation unable (in most cases) to share collected data with others. Trying to offer common communication platform for IoT, AllSeen Alliance introduced Alljoyn framework - interoperable platform for devices (sensors, actuators, etc.) and applications to communicate among themselves regardless of brands, transport technologies, and operating systems. In this paper, we discuss an application for remote management of light systems built as an extension of Alljoyn Framework - developed application is independent on communication technologies (e.g., ZigBee or WiFi). Besides provided communication independence, the presented framework can run on both major SoC architectures ARM and MIPS. To this end, we believe that our application (available as open source on GitHub) can serve as building block in future IoT / Smart home implementations.