Enabling UAV Services in the IoT with HAMSTER

The Internet of Things (IoT) is believed to bring new unprecedented development to our society and will impact and enable new, more powerful applications in many areas. When considering Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), there is potential to enhance applications in emergency response situations, smart cities, industry and others. UAVs are expected to provide and consume services as one of the things in the IoT environment. However, the intrinsic IoT heterogeneity regarding devices, platforms, and communication protocols makes the task of service provision and management much harder to be done in the application layer. In previous work, we have presented how HAMSTER can enable secure service provision using the Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol with enhanced security. In this paper, we show how HAMSTER deals with service management and exchange with minimum effort from the application. We introduce the Service Exchange Operator (SEO) in HAMSTER and present preliminary results. Keywords - Drone, UAV, IoT, Services, HAMSTER.