Abstract-Given the expected high number of accessible digi tally augmented devices and their communication requirements, this paper presents our work on creating a Web-based infrastruc ture for smart things to facilitate the integration, look-up, and interaction with such devices for human users and machines. To exploit the locality of interactions with and between smart things, the proposed infrastructure treats the location of a smart thing as its main property and is therefore structured hierarchically according to logical place identifiers. We discuss the infrastruc ture's look-up mechanism that leverages Web patterns to foster scalability and load balancing and features an advanced caching mechanism that greatly reduces the response time and number of exchanged messages. These properties are demonstrated in an evaluation in a simulated smart environment.
Mayer et al. REF considers the location of smart things/sensors as the main context property and structures them in a logical structure.
Searching in a web-based infrastructure for smart things
2012 3rd IEEE International Conference on the Internet of Things
2012 3rd IEEE International Conference on the Internet of Things
Computer Science