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Toward Internet of Things Application Markets

Toward Internet of Things Application Markets. Outline. Motivation and Problem Statement Related Work Review of Software A pplication Platforms Proposition – Toward IoT Application Market Ongoing and Future Work. Application Markets – Smart Phone. Cloud based service

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Toward Internet of Things Application Markets

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  1. Toward Internet of Things Application Markets

  2. Outline • Motivation and Problem Statement • Related Work • Review of Software Application Platforms • Proposition – Toward IoT Application Market • Ongoing and Future Work

  3. Application Markets – Smart Phone • Cloud based service • Hardware - dependent applications • Large number of users andHardware performances • Metrics on 14/11/2012:Apple AppStore727,938Google PlayStore558,065 • Plethora of applications and services

  4. Application Markets - IoT • IoT is following 1 sensor 1 application model • Goal : Marketplace – many things – many apps

  5. Problem Statement ProblemInternet of Things has a limited number of application marketplaces and therefore low number of applications/services • Study: IoT objects -> Data -> Application marketplace • Aim:Empower developers, third party firms, and users to distribute the software applications for IoT • Contribution: Identified challenges and proposed design elements for realizing the IoT application marketplaces

  6. Motivation for Application Market • Application market: empowers participants in the ecosystem • “When successful, these platforms catalyze a virtuous cycle: More demand from one user group spurs more from the other.” • Eisenmann, T., G. Parker, and M.W. Van Alstyne, Strategies for Two-Sided Markets. Harvard Business Review, 2006. 84(10): p. 92- 101. Developers Users

  7. Related Works • Related works:Kortuem, G. and F. Kawsar. Market-based user innovation in the Internet of Things. in Internet of Things (IOT), 2010.

  8. IoT Application Platforms: Review • A plethora of hardware: Tags: NFC, RFID “Smart” objects: smart phones, smart sensors, smart cars, smart homes… • Increased problem of targeting platform for software development • Limited computational power for some devices or even inexistent (tags or some sensors) • Review of 14 providers (hardware and/or software) such as pachube, bugswarm, evrythng etc.

  9. Hardware Platforms Review • Review: only the hardware that can provide platform for software applicationssoftware libraries are excludedcommercial hardware provided by hardware manufactureropen source hardware intended for DIY *Bugswarm: 236 third party applications

  10. Software Platforms Review • Review: only the cloud based services that provide platform for software applicationssoftware libraries are excluded *IoBridge: 256 application widgets

  11. Review Analysis • Lack of software applications particularly for hardware • Open source hardware generally don’t create application market for software applications • Successful examples like Bugswarm • Cloud based services – predominance of personalization widgets • Emergence of “Data brokerage” platforms that connect heterogeneous hardware and share the data • Common ground for IoT application market: “Data brokerage” platforms • SaaS instead of hardware dependent applications • We need application markets as distribution channels for software applications

  12. Proposition • Virtual Thing– virtual proxy to physical connectable objects • Data Brokerage Platform– cloud based infrastructure designed to collect the data from things and to share the data trough the virtual things • Application Store– registry of available applications • Application market– platform for exchange of (third party) software applications

  13. Architecture

  14. Design Challenges • Core services exposed on data brokerage platform (overlay) : design according to developers’ incentives to enable devices for IoT. Semantic for virtual things: identification, content, position, environment etc. • Managing the compatibility of virtual things with the applications: providing developers with a possibility to target virtual things with their applications • Middleware: communication protocols e.g. HTTP, Socket, MQTT, etc • Data Protection manager: clear policies for retention, management and distribution of digital information (e.g., Privacy, etc.)

  15. Ongoing and Future Work • Finalizing technical challenges and requirements • Implementation of the proposed model for application market: http://apps.thingvibe.com(first functional prototype due by end of December 2012) • Survey study with IoT developers • Part of PhD research “User Empowerment in the Internet of Things” • Future work: “ThingBook” : the “facebook “ of things – Socialization of Things • More detailed review of IoT platforms available at: http://thingvibe.net/2012/iot/iot-state-of-the-art/

  16. Thank you Thank you Questions and answers

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