Thing broker

Ricardo Aparecido Perez de Almeida, Michael Blackstock, Rodger Lea, Roberto Calderon, Antonio Francisco do Prado, Helio Crestana Guardia
2013 Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication - UbiComp '13 Adjunct  
In the Web of Things, standard web technologies and protocols are used to represent and communicate with physical and virtual things. One challenge toward this vision is integrating things with different characteristics, protocols, interfaces and constraints while maintaining the simplicity and flexibility required for a variety of applications. In this paper we present the Thing Broker, a core platform for Web of Things that provides RESTFul interfaces to things using a Twitter-based set of
more » ... tractions and communication model. We present the key abstractions, a reference implementation and explain how a typical WoT application can be created using Thing Broker. We finish with a preliminary evaluation and draw some lessons from our experiences.
doi:10.1145/2494091.2497588 dblp:conf/huc/AlmeidaBLCPG13 fatcat:f56fa3jdnna2plfttuoduqpayy