Demonstration of an IPv6 multi-protocol gateway for seamless integration of Building Automation Systems into Constrained RESTful Environments
| Type of publication: | Inproceedings |
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| Year: | 2012 |
| Month: | October |
| Location: | Wuxi, China |
| Userfields: | Millions of existing smart devices are already deployed in home and building automation covering domains of lighting, heating ventilation and air condition (HVAC), security, safety, and smart metering. From an Internet of Things point of view, these devices are legacy devices based on technologies like BACnet, ZigBee or KNX which mostly use non-IP communication technologies and IP almost exclusively to tunnel their specific network protocols. For native IoT devices recent research work is focusing on IPv6 communication stacks using RESTful Web services for direct device interaction. In order to use such a communication stack in embedded devices, protocols for Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) have been standardized having the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) as main message exchange protocol. This paper presents an implementation and demonstration of a transparent IPv6 multi-protocol gateway that allows a seamless integration of existing Building Automation Systems into the Internet of Things. The gateway provides a CoRE conformant interface for each legacy device and hence has the potential to populate the Internet of Things with millions of real world devices at one go. A demonstration video of the IPv6 multi-protocol gateway is provided at www.auto.tuwien.ac. at/iot6. |
| Keywords: | Building Automation, Internet of Things, IPv6, Multi-protocol integration, Web services |
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