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Future of Iot
Future of Iot
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Network
supported services
Fixed and mobile communication protocols
Interrogator I
Gateway Wider area Applications layer
device communications
and Networks
Middleware layer
Physical
Edge·technology data
Application commands
interface zone capture and Networks
and responses
Figure 3. Internet of Things-at its most basic level This is a good proposal which has given us a rough
solution of the Internet of Things' architecture. But there still
Further layers of Data Capture Technology are some further important issues we should think about
r, carefully. The first is if every object is connected and things
r--.L-1 ACtuC 1 \ can exchange information by themselves, then the traffic and
I nterrogator I Host storages in the network will increase very rapidly with an
Gate way Information Wider area
data
exponential way. Does today's Internet really can bear this?
device communications
Do we need a new backbone? Connecting every object and
and Networks
make them can communicate independently is a very
Sensory data
attractive vision, and yes we can imagine many cases in
future that a thing needs to "talk" to another thing, but is it
real necessary that an object "talks" to all the other objects?
Why a toothbrush needs to "talk" to a fridge? In fact, the
main connections of an object are with those objects which
are in the same the Internet of Things application system as it.
And it is could be seen that the Internet of Things is made up
of many the Internet of Things application systems. From
this point of view, we can have a new seeing of the Internet
of Things. Fi .6 shows us this new view oint.
Physical
interface zone
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The Backbone Network may be today's Internet, may be not III. A THE INTERNET OF THINGS APPLICATION IN
or may be its expansion. COLLEGE
Now the Internet of Things' application situation is there
The Internet of Things is not a theory, it's an application
already have been many applications like EPC Global, sma;t
technology which our life can benefit fro�. I� fact, in a I�ng
hospital and so on which seem work well. But the problem IS
term the value of the internet of things eXIsts In some speCIfic
these application systems work alone, a�d even thou�h I
application. Specific application solutions will be one of the
mentioned before that today an object maInly commUnIcate
most important engines of the innovation and development
with another object who is in the same application system,
of the Internet of Things. it's application driven.
but there's no doubt that the technical future is connecting
Currently, there already have some successful appli�ations in
every application system and with the growth of the I�te';1et
. different fields like retail, food, logistics, transportatIOn, etc.
of Things the communication between dIfferent apphcatlO�
So far we have mentioned so many stuffs about the Internet
of Th ings, but what a real the Inte�et of Thin?s �pplication
systems will become more and more frequently for theIr
collaboration. But as the lack of global standards, they may
system like? Here the authors desIgn an apphcatIo� model
have used different standards and technologies, so the
for the college campus facilities management USIng the
interoperability is a problem. Only if we can solve the
Internet of Things technology and take it as an example to
interoperability problem we can have a re�1 the Internet of
. show what a real the Internet of Things like and how it can
Things. The authors come up with a solutIon that addIng a
benefit our life.
Coordination Layer into the Internet of Things' architecture
In the college campus, there are many buildings, e.g.
design. The coordination layer responses to process the
teaching buildings, office buildings, library; dinnin� h�lIs,
structure of packages from different application systems and
etc. Almost every building has its own heatIng, ventIlatIng,
reassemble them to an unified structure which can be
air condition systems (HVAC) and elevator system, those
identified and processed by every application system. Of
devices should be managed and maintained but it's not easy
course if the standards of the Internet of Things are
to make this job well done. Now we can use the Inte';1et �f
completed then the systems which based on the standa!ds
Things technology in campus facilities manage�ent. Flg.S �s
will have no problem in interoperability, this problem eXIsts
the architecture of this pilot project we have desIgned for thiS
between the existed application systems and the new
kind of facilities management.
deployed systems, and between the existed ap�lication
systems themselves. Based on all above, we . gIve .our
Solid lines -- Data Flow
architecture design proposal of the Internet of ThIngs.Flg.7
Dashed lines -- Control Flow
shows our design.
Information
World
Application Layer Building Facilities Control System
Wi-Fi
Coordination Layer
Communication Manager
Access Layer
Existed alone
Application
System
Edge Technology
Layer
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IV. DISCUSSION
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