Abstract
Today, increasing number of industrial application cases
rely on the Machine to Machine (M2M) services exposed
from physical devices. Such M2M services enable
interaction of physical world with the core processes of
company information systems. However, there are grand
challenges related to complexity and "vertical silos"
limiting the M2M market scale and interoperability. It is
here expected that horizontal approach for the system
architecture is required for solving these challenges.
Therefore, a set of architectural principles and key
enablers for the horizontal architecture have been
specified in this work. A selected set of key enablers
called as autonomic M2M manager, M2M service
capabilities, M2M messaging system, M2M gateways towards
energy constrained M2M asset devices and creation of
trust to enable end-to-end security for M2M applications
have been developed. The developed key enablers have been
evaluated separately in different scenarios dealing with
smart metering, car sharing and electric bike
experiments. The evaluation results shows that the
provided architectural principles, and developed key
enablers establish a solid ground for future research and
seem to enable communication between objects and
applications, which are not initially been designed to
communicate together. The aim as the next step in this
research is to create a combined experimental system to
evaluate the system interoperability and performance in a
more detailed manner.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 261-301 |
Journal | Future Internet |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- machine to machine systems
- Internet of Things
- IoT
- cyber-physical systems