Simpleware Device Surrogates: Enabling High-Level Description and Interaction with Resource Constrained Devices

As the Home Area Network (HAN) evolves, there is an increase in both the number and diversity of device deployment. This includes embedded devices whose resource constraints do not permit the efficient performance of high level middleware functionality. We herein present the functionality and knowledge representations required to enable such “simpleware” devices to be dynamically represented by proxy within our Nexus middleware framework. We also present a use case to illustrate the proposed solution.

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