WG211/M13Consel

Nowadays, smart spaces (buildings, cities, etc.) are populated with an increasingly large number of smart objects or things such as sensors, actuators, RFID tags, etc. This situation has given rise to the to the Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm, where things leverage existing Internet technologies for communication among themselves and interact with the environment through sensing and actuation capabilities. These emerging infrastructures open up a host of opportunities for applications to provide users, companies and cities with new services. However, to realize this vision, infrastructures still need to be bridged with application development.

This talk presents key challenges involved in orchestrating masses of sensors. To tackle these challenges, we propose a design-driven development approach and demonstrate its advantages at different stages of the development lifecycle. A working example is used to illustrate our approach.