2019
Briante, O.; Cicirelli, F.; Guerrieri, A.; Iera, A.; Mercuri, A.; Ruggeri, G.; Spezzano, G.; Vinci, A.
A social and pervasive IoT platform for developing smart environments Book Chapter
In: 2019, ISSN: 21991081.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: Edge computing, IoT development platforms, IoT-based applications, Multi agent systems, smart environments, social internet of things
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title = {A social and pervasive IoT platform for developing smart environments},
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abstract = {Nowadays, the increasing in the use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is growing the realization of pervasive Smart Environments (SEs) and Smart Urban Ecosystems, where all the data gathered by the “Things” can be elaborated and used to improve the livability, the safety and the security of the environment, and to make inhabitants lives easier. Many efforts have been already done in the direction of SEs development and in the implementation of platforms specifically designed for SE realization. Anyway, such efforts miss of solutions regarding the interoperability among the realized SEs and other third-part “Things”. This chapter gives an overview of iSapiens, which is a Java-based platform specifically designed for the development and implementation of SEs. iSapiens tries to overcome the interoperability issue by leveraging the Social Internet of Things (SIoT) paradigm that allows to dynamically include in an SE the new “Things” that can appear in an environment without requiring interventions from humans. iSapiens provides tools for the realization of pervasive SEs and relies on the edge computing paradigm. Such paradigm is extremely important in a distributed system since it allows to use distributed storage and computation at the edge of a network, so reducing latencies with respect to move all the executions and storages in the cloud. Moreover, the chapter will review some SE applications realized by exploiting iSapiens concepts.},
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Nowadays, the increasing in the use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is growing the realization of pervasive Smart Environments (SEs) and Smart Urban Ecosystems, where all the data gathered by the “Things” can be elaborated and used to improve the livability, the safety and the security of the environment, and to make inhabitants lives easier. Many efforts have been already done in the direction of SEs development and in the implementation of platforms specifically designed for SE realization. Anyway, such efforts miss of solutions regarding the interoperability among the realized SEs and other third-part “Things”. This chapter gives an overview of iSapiens, which is a Java-based platform specifically designed for the development and implementation of SEs. iSapiens tries to overcome the interoperability issue by leveraging the Social Internet of Things (SIoT) paradigm that allows to dynamically include in an SE the new “Things” that can appear in an environment without requiring interventions from humans. iSapiens provides tools for the realization of pervasive SEs and relies on the edge computing paradigm. Such paradigm is extremely important in a distributed system since it allows to use distributed storage and computation at the edge of a network, so reducing latencies with respect to move all the executions and storages in the cloud. Moreover, the chapter will review some SE applications realized by exploiting iSapiens concepts.
2017
Cicirelli, Franco; Guerrieri, Antonio; Spezzano, Giandomenico; Vinci, Andrea; Briante, Orazio; Iera, Antonio; Ruggeri, Giuseppe
An edge-based approach to develop large-scale smart environments by leveraging SIoT Proceedings Article
In: Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), 2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on, pp. 738–743, IEEE 2017, ISBN: 978-1-5090-4428-3.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: Edge computing, internet of things, multi-agent systems, smart environments, social internet of things
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title = {An edge-based approach to develop large-scale smart environments by leveraging SIoT},
author = {Franco Cicirelli and Antonio Guerrieri and Giandomenico Spezzano and Andrea Vinci and Orazio Briante and Antonio Iera and Giuseppe Ruggeri},
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abstract = {Abstract—Large-scale Smart Environments (LSEs) are open and dynamic systems where issues related to scalability and interoperability require to be carefully addressed. Moreover, as such systems typically extend on a wide area and include a huge number of interacting devices, aspects concerning services and objects discovery and reputation assessment require being managed. Despite the increasing interest in this topic, there is a lack of approaches for developing LSEs. This paper proposes an agent-based approach for the development of LSEs which leverages Edge Computing and Social Internet of Things paradigms in order to address the above mentioned issues. The effectiveness of such an approach is assessed through a case study involving a Smart School District environment.},
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Abstract—Large-scale Smart Environments (LSEs) are open and dynamic systems where issues related to scalability and interoperability require to be carefully addressed. Moreover, as such systems typically extend on a wide area and include a huge number of interacting devices, aspects concerning services and objects discovery and reputation assessment require being managed. Despite the increasing interest in this topic, there is a lack of approaches for developing LSEs. This paper proposes an agent-based approach for the development of LSEs which leverages Edge Computing and Social Internet of Things paradigms in order to address the above mentioned issues. The effectiveness of such an approach is assessed through a case study involving a Smart School District environment.
Cicirelli, F.; Guerrieri, A.; Spezzano, G.; Vinci, A.; Briante, O.; Ruggeri, G.
ISapiens: A platform for social and pervasive smart environments Proceedings Article
In: 2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), IEEE, 2017, ISBN: 9781509041305.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: Agent Computing, Edge computing, smart environments, social internet of things
@inproceedings{Cicirelli2017c,
title = {ISapiens: A platform for social and pervasive smart environments},
author = {F. Cicirelli and A. Guerrieri and G. Spezzano and A. Vinci and O. Briante and G. Ruggeri},
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date = {2017-01-01},
urldate = {2017-01-01},
booktitle = {2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)},
journal = {2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things, WF-IoT 2016},
publisher = {IEEE},
abstract = {The advent of Internet of Things (IoT) has fueled the implementation of Smart Environments (SEs) where the information made available by the 'Things' is processed and utilized to increase the livability, the safety and the security of the environment, and to make easier the life of its inhabitants. In literature there are many attempts to create specific SEs or platform for the SEs realization. Although effective, these solutions lack of interoperability with other third-part 'Things'. In this paper we propose iSapiens, a Java-based platform for the design and the implementation of SEs. iSapiens deals with the above mentioned limitation by leveraging the Social Internet of Things (SIoT) paradigm to dynamically include in a SE newly available 'Things' without requiring any human intervention. iSapiens allows the creation of pervasive smart environments by exploiting the edge computing paradigm, that makes locally available distributed storage and computational resources without introducing latency and causing bandwidth shortage.},
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The advent of Internet of Things (IoT) has fueled the implementation of Smart Environments (SEs) where the information made available by the 'Things' is processed and utilized to increase the livability, the safety and the security of the environment, and to make easier the life of its inhabitants. In literature there are many attempts to create specific SEs or platform for the SEs realization. Although effective, these solutions lack of interoperability with other third-part 'Things'. In this paper we propose iSapiens, a Java-based platform for the design and the implementation of SEs. iSapiens deals with the above mentioned limitation by leveraging the Social Internet of Things (SIoT) paradigm to dynamically include in a SE newly available 'Things' without requiring any human intervention. iSapiens allows the creation of pervasive smart environments by exploiting the edge computing paradigm, that makes locally available distributed storage and computational resources without introducing latency and causing bandwidth shortage.