An Open Source Lifecycle Collaboration Approach Supporting Internet of Things System Development

The internet of things (IoT) system integrates heterogeneous systems using centric services to provide a single open solution to process sensor data. During the whole life cycle of IoT systems, developers face the problems of interface management and data interoperability led by increasing complexity. Such problems decrease the efficiency of IoT system development and implementation, such as interface configurations for domain specific systems are difficult if there is not a unified specification. This paper proposed an Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) approach supporting IoT system development and implementation. The approach integrates domain specific data across the whole lifecycle including development models and sensor data. Moreover, it enables interface management for IoT system development and real-time monitoring for implementations. From the case study, we find an OSLC-based tool, Datalinks, supports data integration and interface management which improves the development efficiency and data interoperability of IoT systems. The integrated data based on OSLC acts the mid-wares of data exchange between physical space and virtual space of IoT system. Moreover, the OSLC-based interfaces are developed based on unified specifications whose reusability is promoted for the future development.