Showing papers on "Internet appliance published in 2018"

Edge-Centric Distributed Discovery and Access in the Internet of Things

Abstract: Massive diffusion of constrained devices communicating through low-power wireless technologies in the future Internet of Things (IoT) will require in many scenarios the deployment of IoT gateways to allow applications to discover and access IoT resources. In this context, Fog/Edge computing will represent an opportunity to deploy IoT gateways in proximity of IoT domains, meeting the requirements of applications needing low-latency interactions with devices. In this paper, we present an edge-centric distributed architecture to provide resource discovery and access services to IoT applications. The proposed approach leverages the CoRE Resource Directory interface and the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) to expose a standard interface for global discovery and access. Multiple IoT gateways are federated through a peer-to-peer overlay implemented by a distributed hash table, which is exploited to share the information on IoT resources available across multiple domains. The proposed solution is validated by means of a small-scale prototype, and extensively evaluated through emulation in large scale deployment in comparison to a centralized Cloud-based approach. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed approach guarantees lower latencies than a centralized solution and can ensure scalability for small to medium sized deployments.

Internet of things in medical applications with a service-oriented and security approach: a survey

Abstract: In recent decades, Internet of Things (IOT) has been widely used in the communication of equipment and resources. An important and appropriate application of this technology includes medical devices and resources. With the aid of this technology, the services provided for the end user for example, the patients admitted to the hospital will have greater speed and accuracy. Further, in the necessary care of chronic diseases or extensive applications like services for the elderly or applications requiring momentary knowledge on a large scale and in the online form, using this technology is undoubtedly a great help to better do the job. In this paper, attempts have been made to investigate the Internet of Things in the field of medicine with a service-oriented and security approach and make different comparisons concerning the works conducted, researchers, success, development of Internet of Things in health care systems in terms of empowering the technologies and various applications of Internet of Things in the medical industry and report the results. Ultimately, the opportunities and challenges ahead in the use of Internet of Things in medical applications and health field have been stated.

Chapter 10- A novel cloud-based IoT architecture for smart building automation

Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) is meant to be the future of the current Internet. It is commonly defined as a network of physical and virtual objects, devices, or things that are capable of collecting surrounding data and exchanging it between them or through the Internet. To enable data collection, devices are embedded with sensors, software, and electronics; the exchange capability is achieved by connecting them to local area networks or to the Internet. The origins of the Internet of Things are diffuse. Even though the word was first coined in 1999 by Kevin Ashton, co-founder and executive director of the Auto-ID Center at MIT, for companies such as CISCO, the IoT was born in 2009, when more devices than people were connected to the Internet. At that time, the number of connected devices were 10 billion, but the expectations are generous. It is thought that by 2020, more than 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet. As it can be extracted from the numbers, during the last few years, the Internet of Things has seen an unexpected increase in popularity, mainly thanks to technology improvements. The combination of these improvements has created the new market opportunities that companies have foreseen. Since the Internet of Things is in a very young state, the lack of coordination, and the rapidness with which new gadgets, are created are hampering the standardization of the future Internet.

The mobile Internet underclass: Reality or hyperbole?:

Abstract: Scholars have warned that because mobile Internet access offers lower levels of functionality and content availability, operates on less open and flexible platforms and contributes to diminished le...

The Internet of Things

Abstract: The Internet of Things The Internet of Things (IoT) has received growing attention by researchers, government, and businesses over the last several years. There are numerous and varying definitions of the IoT. For example, the United Nations defines it “as a global infrastructure for the information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things based on existing and evolving interoperable information and communication technologies” (UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development 2016:12). The McKinsey Global Institute defines the IoT as “sensors or actuators embedded in physical objects that are linked through wired and wireless networks” (Manyika et al. 2015:17).

Internet of things application framework

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provides to receive a packet from an Internet of Things (IoT) device; determine whether the packet carries IoT data; determine a type of linked data to obtain in response to a determination that the packet carries the IoT data, wherein a determination of the type of linked data is based on at least one of a source network address of the IoT device or a device identifier of the IoT device that correlates to an application programming interface (API) and corresponding type of linked data; obtain the type of linked data in response to the determination of the type of linked data; store the type of linked data and the IoT data; and grant access and use of the type of linked data and the IoT data to the API of a software application, when the software application is executed.

Internet of Things Applications for Healthcare

Abstract: The great potential offered by the Internet of Things technology enables their wide applications in many areas of society, which would significantly increase and improve the quality of their functioning. By equipping various environments, i.e. domains, even with devices with primitive intelligence and modest communication capabilities, the communication of these entities with each other would be possible, with an aim to ensure data management. Such systems can be widely used in the following areas:

Comiqual: collaborative measurement of internet quality

Abstract: With the continuous growth of both fixed and mobile Internet usage, measuring the Internet QoS (quality of service) becomes of vital interest for all involved Internet stakeholders, mainly consumers, operators, and regulators. In this paper, we describe in detail, Comiqual (collaborative measurement of Internet quality), a crowd-sourced large-scale Internet measurement platform that coordinates and collects measurements from measurement agents (MAs) installed on fixed and mobile end user devices. Although the initial and main target of Comiqual is Lebanon, the platform is generically designed to measure the Internet access quality from the user’s perspective anywhere on the globe. The MAs that execute mainly active measurements are jointly controlled by users and by a measurement center (MC); the latter sends measurement instructions to MAs and collects the measurement results. The communication protocol between MC and MAs uses JSON messages that are exchanged via HTTP through REST calls and secured by HTTPS. Measurement results could be openly accessed in a raw format or viewed as an aggregation via a Google map. Moreover, an online statistical tool allows user-defined statistics computation and visualization. All these features combined with the flexibility of the platform management are the main drivers that will allow Comiqual to reach its ultimate goal, which is to create a collaborative, neutral, and transparent observatory of the Internet.

Mobile information apparatus with an application for receiving digital content from a digital content service over the internet and for wirelessly transmitting or playing at least part of the received digital content at a bluetooth enable output device

Abstract: Mobile information apparatus (eg, smart phone, Internet appliances, information pad) with software applications for receiving digital content from a service provided over a network (eg, Internet) and for wirelessly playing at least part of the received digital content at a Bluetooth enabled output device are herein disclosed and enabled To receive and play digital content, the software applications may obtain authentication information for accessing the service, receive a list of one or more digital content that is available from the service for selection on the touch sensitive screen interface, receive a selected digital content from among the list displayed on the touch sensitive screen, receive output data from the service related to the selected digital content, and then either play audio data related to the received output data at a speaker of the mobile information apparatus or wirelessly play the audio data at the Bluetooth enabled output device

Building the Internet

Abstract: The foundations of what we know today as the Internet were laid in 1960s by a group of researches in the USA working together in the federally funded Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA). In the 1970s, several parallel evolutions empowered the making of an international global computer network based on a consensual protocol standard. We will also follow the history of operating system approaches, which led to the industry wide acceptance of the UNIX-family as server operating system, the evolution of standard programming languages and the importance of the open system movement. With the commercialization of the Internet in the 1980s, the foundation was established for a broad distribution of new applications and businesses.

System for capturing and outputting digital content over a network that includes the internet

Abstract: An output system for capturing and outputting digital content is herein disclosed and enabled. The output system includes an information apparatus (e.g., a digital capturing device or an internet appliance) for capturing digital content, a server application at a server over the Internet, and a client application at a client device for accessing the captured digital content. The information apparatus includes a wireless communication module (e.g., IEEE 802.11 or Bluetooth) for transmitting the captured digital content to the server. The server application generates output data from the captured digital content for sending to the client device for outputting or playing at least part of the output data at an output device associated with the client device. Receipt of the output data is dependent on the client application having provided security or authentication information and payment or subscription information to the server.

A security method of communication network for Internet appliance using matching of variant protocol and disposable index key value

Abstract: The present invention relates to a communication network security method for an Internet appliance using matching of a variant protocol and a disposable index key value, to generate a variant protocol by changing a specific frame index number of plaintext data transmitted from the Internet appliance to a server, and to activate mutual communication by matching the index number of the variant protocol with the disposable index key value generated by a time difference in the server in a time synchronous manner. The communication network security method includes a step (S1) of sequentially generating and transmitting a disposable index key value, a step (S2) of generating a variant protocol, and a step (S3) of extracting valid data.

Information apparatus for playing digital content that is received from a digital content service provided over the internet

Abstract: An information apparatus (e.g., Internet appliance, information pad, digital camera, video camera, etc.), or software applications of the information apparatus, supporting voice commands for receiving and playing digital content from a service provided over a network (e.g., Internet) are herein disclosed and enabled. The information apparatus may establish a wireless local area network connection to access a service over the Internet. The service may be a subscribed service. While connected to the service, the information apparatus may capture, using a digital capturing device included in the information apparatus, digital content that includes image or video content; send the captured digital content to the service; and, in response to having sent the digital content to the service, the information apparatus may receive, from the service, output data that includes audio content or video content for outputting or playing at a display device associated with the information apparatus.

Information apparatus or client software that wirelessly discovers, within short range, one or more output devices for establishing a wireless connection

Abstract: Information apparatus that wirelessly discovers an output device, which is available within close physical vicinity for outputting digital content, is herein disclosed and enabled. The information apparatus includes wireless communication circuitry for establishing short range wireless communication between the information apparatus and the output device. The information apparatus wirelessly receives information from the output device that has been wirelessly discovered, and determines, from the information received, whether the output device matches a requirement for outputting digital content. When the requirement is matched, the information apparatus selects the discovered output device, conforms at least part of the content into output data, and transmits at least part of the output data over the short range wireless communication from the information apparatus to the selected output device. The information apparatus may include one or more of a smart phone, information pad, a digital camera, or an Internet appliance.