Internet of Things : A Review on Connectivity Gateway Protocols and Semantic Interoperability
Mensah, Simon (2017)
Oulun ammattikorkeakoulu
2017
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017112918884
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017112918884
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The main objective of this Master’s thesis was to present a detailed overview of the most promising protocols designed for the Internet of Things (IoT) application implementation. The objective was also to serve as a comprehension for new researches and application developers to choose the best protocol for their applications deployment. A review on the existing IoT architectures, the protocol stacks, IoT gateway performance and data management with semantic interoperability of the protocols were presented to serve as a guide for developers. Also, a quick overview on the upcoming 5G cellular technology, which has been planned to have more promising technology for IoT full deployment is also presented to give an idea of what IoT will be in near future.
This thesis work was conducted mainly by a collection of relevant scientific papers and approved standards of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology. Also, players in the IoT industry were personally contacted for further real-time application implementation challenges and the constrains they face in terms of the choice of protocol and the interconnectivity or interoperability with other applications due to different protocol standards.
As long as there is no common standard for IoT protocol implementation, the result of this study will serve as a guide for IoT application developers to help them to choose the right application protocol when developing an IoT product. Again, due to the lack of common standard for IoT, interconnectivity or interoperability between devices from different vendors is a challenge for consumers, hence, the result of this thesis will help consumers to choose carefully from the vast IoT products on the market today in other to interoperate the product the buy. However, future studies on this subject could be conducted to investigate how to achieve a semantic interoperability among the application layer protocols presented in this work so that data from one vendor application can be represented in the similar format in another vendor application.
This thesis work was conducted mainly by a collection of relevant scientific papers and approved standards of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology. Also, players in the IoT industry were personally contacted for further real-time application implementation challenges and the constrains they face in terms of the choice of protocol and the interconnectivity or interoperability with other applications due to different protocol standards.
As long as there is no common standard for IoT protocol implementation, the result of this study will serve as a guide for IoT application developers to help them to choose the right application protocol when developing an IoT product. Again, due to the lack of common standard for IoT, interconnectivity or interoperability between devices from different vendors is a challenge for consumers, hence, the result of this thesis will help consumers to choose carefully from the vast IoT products on the market today in other to interoperate the product the buy. However, future studies on this subject could be conducted to investigate how to achieve a semantic interoperability among the application layer protocols presented in this work so that data from one vendor application can be represented in the similar format in another vendor application.