Workshop Objectives
Many technologies have been developed to target the Internet of Things, promising ubiquitous accessibility and real-time data provisioning. Major technology vendors are introducing IoT technologies, e.g. Microsoft Azure IoT suite, IBM’s Internet of Things Foundation for Developers, Apple’s homekit, and CISCO’s IoE Product Portfolio, that promise ubiquitous accessibility and real-time data provisioning. Many of the technologies are proprietary with an emphasis on creating a vertical stack that - at best - provides a vertical integration of technologies, which elicit discrepancies in operation rather than cooperation. The adoption of multiple proprietary IoT infrastructures results in a fragmented infrastructure that inhibits the full potential of IoT by limiting access to billions of networked entities by forcing an almost one to one relationship between applications (consumers) and data providers (producers). Recent surveys in the field and industrial reports have noted the need for much strategic work in synergizing solutions across IoT technologies, and in cooperation with existing infrastructures for data collection in urban settings. The potential impact of IoT has advanced from a dream, to a marketing cliché, to a reality with fierce industrial (and academic) contention. However, we argue that current mainstream directions are drifting towards application specific visions of IoT, and realistic deployments are almost always proprietary and confined. Despite earlier efforts to introduce IoT as a platform for connecting billions of devices, the realizations today (over dozens of companies) are far from interoperable. The mere connection remains in the backbone Internet, as a medium where all these devices could somehow communicate thanks to IPv6 address abundance. We argue that a truly scalable IoT has to achieve four objectives that are thus far unattainable under proprietary IoT solutions:
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