A Service Based Architecture for Multidisciplinary IoTExperiments with Crowdsourced Resources

Panagiotis Alexandrou 1,2 Constantinos Marios Angelopoulos 3,7 OrestisEvangelatos 3 Jo ao Fernandes 5 Gabriel Filios 1,2 Marios Karagiannis 3 NikolaosLoumis 6 Sotiris Nikoletseas 1,2 Aleksandra Rankov 4 Theofanis P. Raptis 1,2 Jose

D. P. Rolim 3 Alexandros Souroulagkas 1,2

1Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, Greece

2Computer Technology Institute and Press Diophantus, Patras, Greece

3University of Geneva, Switzerland

4DunavNET, Novi Sad, Serbia

5Alexandra Institute, Aarhus, Denmark

6University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

7Bournemouth University, UK

AdHocNow 2016, Lille, France

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Introduction

Testbeds

Testbed as a Service (TBaaS)

Related work

GENIOneLabFed4FIREGEANTEpiCollect, PhoneLab

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Introduction Our Contribution

Our Contribution

Federated a wide range of devices

StaticVirtualCrowdsourced

Novel, generic yet specified experimentation mechanism

User incentivization

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Resource Handling Description

We adopted and adapted the RSpec schema for the resource description

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Resource Handling Diversity of Resources

We have federated the following resources:

Static IoT resources

Mobile/portable IoT resources

Virtual/modelled resources

Web services

Crowdsourced Resources - Opportunistic/Participatory sensing

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Resource Handling Architecture

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Experiment composition Experiment Composition

Efficient description of diverse experiments in a generic yet specific waythrough IFTTT scenaria and Questionnaires.

A diverse way of discovering, provisioning and reserving resources

Survey Queries

Survey Lists

Geofencing

Project Code

IFTTT scenario

Get a value from specified resources

Define an action

Set a conditionSet an outcome

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Experiment composition Experiment Description

Experiment Description

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Experiment composition Experiment Execution

Naive approach through Threads. more robust solution Queues.

Queues

PersistentMonitoringControlScalable

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Engaging the Crowd

An Incentive mechanism Necessary for effective user engagement in theexperiments Persuade users to complete task segments

Incentives framework

SponsorCharity

Reputation mechanisms

PlatformResearcherUser

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Scalability Network

Network ScalabilityScenaria

High-endAverageLow-end

PackagesSensing package 400 bytesSourcing package 100 Kbs

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Scalability Architecture

Architecture Scalability

CacheLoad balancerQueues

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Practical Applications

Upatras use-case

Crowd

Passive light readingsParticipatory localization through QR code scanningQuestionnaires to adjust parameters

Static

AutomationMeters

Ekonet use-case

Mobile sensors

Crowd

Questionnaire

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Conclusion and Future Work

Experiments

Dynamic ExperimentsChange Experiments Parameters

Deployment in Industrial Setting

Explore more options for crowd interaction

Data visualization

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Questions

Thank you for your attention, any questions?

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