Titulo Estágio
Management Architecture for IOT in the context of project Isabela
Áreas de especialidade
Comunicações, Serviços e Infraestruturas
Engenharia de Software
Local do Estágio
DEI-FCTUC
Enquadramento
The Internet of Things (IoT) is finally becoming a reality. A global network of specific sensor devices, mobile phones and other computing devices, is providing the resources to fulfil the objective of a real-time sensing network where devices communicate between them using the Internet. The result is the possibility for highly monitored environments, which are able to be controlled and that react in real-time to dynamic environment conditions. This new cyber-physical world aims to respond to specific user objectives, for whom they gather, control and process the data sensed. According to recent studies, Machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless communication market will continue rising, to reach about 196x109 US dollars in 2020.
To manage a heterogeneous network, consisting of multiple heterogeneous devices, from multiple vendors, new management protocols need to be created. Some approaches have been developed, such as the Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) proposed by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) or the CoAP Management Interface proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
Project Isabela (IoT Student Advisor & BEst Lifestyle Analyzer) consists an application that aims to help students to achieve their maximum academic potential by carefully monitoring the student context in real-time. It uses smartphone local sensors (such as the microphone to sense noise, accelerometer to detect movement, GPS to get location), external sensors (such as smart-watches to sense heart rate) and virtual sensors (such as weather data retrieved from web services), and analyzes data using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. It brings together the cyber-physical world and the human user, the latter being no longer a command issuer or data receiver, but himself an active sensor that interacts with the network. The project first goal is to understand the relation between academic work load, stress, dream patterns, physical activity and socialization in the student academic life. The second is to act pro-actively, using AI algorithms to suggest activities that will help the student to maintain a healthy performance.
In Isabela, privacy concerns are addressed by using data anonymization techniques, keeping personal data only visible to the user that produces it. In the cloud, only aggregated and anonymous data are used.
In this work, the student will join the development team of Isabela.
Objetivo
The work to be done under this proposal has two main objectives:
- Development of a new light IoT management model, based on Lightweight M2M (LWM2M), which allows the management of generic real and virtual sensors, from multiple vendors, and that uses a FiWare platform;
- Creation of an interface that enables the addition, removal and operation of generic sensors in the Isabela application, based on the developed IoT management model.
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 1
1) Study of the state-of-the-art of all the supporting technologies used in the project Isabela, of the existing management protocols and of the FiWare platform.
Start: September 2018
Duration: 2 months
2) Study of an initial approach to a management model for IoT using LWM2M.
Start: November 2018
Duration: 2 months
Work results of the 1st semester:
• Initial approach to a management model for IoT based on LWM2M.
• Intermediate report
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 2
1) Implementation of the new Isabela management modules in the Android application, and of all the necessary server structure.
Start: January 2019
Duration: 3 months
2) Tests and validation
Start: April 2019
Duration: 2 months
3) Writing of the final report
Start: June 2019
Duration: 1 month
Work results of the 2nd semester:
• New modules implemented in Isabela
• Final report
Condições
The work will be developed at the Laboratory of Communications and Telematics within the context of project Isabela.
Observações
Advisors:
Vasco Pereira
Soraya Sinche
Orientador
Vasco Pereira
vasco@dei.uc.pt 📩