An Agent Modeling for Overcoming the Heterogeneity in the IoT with Design Patterns

摘要

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been considered as a core infrastructure that provides the connectivity to anyone, anywhere, anytime and especially anything. Due to this advantage, the IoT is expected to change the whole society and to enrich people's everyday life, but there are a lot of technical issues in realizing the IoT. Among them, the heterogeneity is an urgent and essential issue that cannot be easily resolved. In this paper, we described an agent modeling that can hide the heterogeneity of devices using the Strategy, Dependency Injection, and Reflection design patterns. The designed agent was implemented as the agent system named iSilo and various devices were developed and bound to the agents in the iSilo. Several experiments were conducted in Korea and Japan and these evaluations showed the proposed modeling could be a novel solution to overcome the heterogeneity in the IoT.