Runtime model based approach to IoT application development

doi:10.1007/s11704-015-4362-0

Front. Comput. Sci.

2015, Vol. 9

Issue (4) : 540-553 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-015-4362-0

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Runtime model based approach to IoT application development

Xing CHEN^1,²,Aipeng LI^1,²,Xue’e ZENG^1,²,Wenzhong GUO^1,^2,^*(

),Gang HUANG^3,⁴

1. College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China
2. Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Networking Computing and Intelligent Information Processing, Fuzhou 350116, China
3. Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Ministry of Education), Beijing 100871, China
4. School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

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Abstract

The internet of things (IoT) attracts great interest in many application domains concerned with monitoring and control of physical phenomena. However, application development is still one of the main hurdles to a wide adoption of IoT technology. Application development is done at a low level, very close to the operating system and requires programmers to focus on low-level system issues. The underlying APIs can be very complicated and the amount of data collected can be huge. This can be very hard to deal with as a developer. In this paper, we present a runtime model based approach to IoT application development. First, the manageability of sensor devices is abstracted as runtime models that are automatically connected with the corresponding systems. Second, a customized model is constructed according to a personalized application scenario and the synchronization between the customized model and sensor device runtime models is ensured through model transformation. Thus, all the application logic can be carried out by executing programs on the customized model. An experiment on a real-world application scenario demonstrates the feasibility, effectiveness, and benefits of the new approach to IoT application development.

Keywords application development software architecture models at runtime

Corresponding Author(s): Wenzhong GUO

Just Accepted Date: 22 April 2015 Issue Date: 07 September 2015

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Xing CHEN,Aipeng LI,Xue’e ZENG, et al. Runtime model based approach to IoT application development[J]. Front. Comput. Sci., 2015, 9(4): 540-553.

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