Lightweight monitoring system for IOT devices

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings millions of devices, in the form of sensor, actuator, or embedded electronic devices interconnected through the Internet. Monitoring abundant of IoT devices is a big challenge, especially in a constrained condition of sensor nodes (e.g. limited CPU, memory, and battery). Therefore, a good monitoring system with an efficient monitoring protocol is often needed to compensate the limited resources of sensor nodes. SNMP is a protocol that widely used for a monitoring system. However, SNMP was developed without taking into account of devices with limited resources. This paper presents a proposed prototype of a light weight monitoring system based on agent-manager model. The testing result shows that the developed prototype system generates smaller packet sizes than the SNMP-based monitoring system on the same function and shows a low CPU and memory usage in monitoring thousands of devices.