Efficient device group management in oneM2M

With an increasingly large number of devices in the IoT/M2M systems, device management has become a very challenging task. This is especially true when an IoT/M2M server needs to handle each and every device individually via a gateway. In this research, we propose a new way of realizing “group management” defined in oneM2M to efficiently handle a large number of devices behind a gateway. To achieve this efficient group management for devices, we not only have to leverage the flexible group management in oneM2M but also extend OMA LWM2M device management with the group management capability. This paper reports our research results in integrating oneM2M group management and device management.