Open AccessA DISTRIBUTED SENSOR DATA SEARCH PLATFORM FOR INTERNET OF THINGS ENVIRONMENTS
Author(s) -
Henrique Luiz,
C. Estrella Júlio,
Héctor Luis,
M. de O. Libardi Rafael,
H. G. Ferreira Carlos,
L. R. Jorge Liuri,
Perera Charith,
Reiff-Marganiec Stephan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
international journal of services computing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-4472
pISSN - 2330-4464
DOI - 10.29268/stsc.2016.4.1.1
Subject(s) - internet of things , computer science , the internet , world wide web
Recently, the number of devices has grown increasingly and it is hoped that, between 2015 and 2016, 20 billion devices will be connected to the Internet and this market will move around 91.5 billion dollars. The Internet of Things (IoT) is composed of small sensors and actuators embedded in objects with Internet access and will play a key role in solving many challenges faced in today's society. However, the real capacity of IoT concepts is constrained as the current sensor networks usually do not exchange information with other sources. In this paper, we propose the Visual Search for Internet of Things (ViSIoT) platform to help technical and non-technical users to discover and use sensors as a service for different application purposes. As a proof of concept, a real case study is used to generate weather condition reports to support rheumatism patients. This case study was executed in a working prototype and a performance evaluation is presented.