INTERNET OF THINGS ARCHITECTURE IN THE CONTEXT OF INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS – A CASE STUDY TOWARDS A WEB-BASED APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT

Radio-frequency Identification (RFID) devices are seen as the gateway to a new phase of development of the information society, known as the "Internet of Things". In this new phase, devices with reduced computational capacity will communicate over the Internet, generating large amount of information that adds value to everyday life. This will affect the relationship people have with everyday life, and the current business models. With this concept in mind, this study tests the viability of using an embedded system to control vehicle access from a University campus. Therefore, it will be used a low-cost, open source and Internet-ready platform, commercially known as BeagleBone to perform this local control. It should interpret signals from sensors, control an actuator which is an automatic gate and communicate over the network (using the standard protocols of the Internet stack TCP / IP and Ethernet) using a simple LLRP middleware. The main contribution of this work is to define the feasibility of using such architecture for more complex control and traffic monitoring possible applications, delimiting boundaries for the application of this architecture.