Thing broker: a twitter for things

Authors:
Ricardo Aparecido Perez de Almeida;Michael Blackstock;Rodger Lea;Roberto Calderon;Antonio Francisco do Prado;Helio Crestana Guardia
Affiliations:
Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil;University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil;Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication
Year:
2013

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Abstract

In the Web of Things, standard web technologies and protocols are used to represent and communicate with physical and virtual things. One challenge toward this vision is integrating things with different characteristics, protocols, interfaces and constraints while maintaining the simplicity and flexibility required for a variety of applications. In this paper we present the Thing Broker, a core platform for Web of Things that provides RESTFul interfaces to things using a Twitter-based set of abstractions and communication model. We present the key abstractions, a reference implementation and explain how a typical WoT application can be created using Thing Broker. We finish with a preliminary evaluation and draw some lessons from our experiences.