Simurgh: A framework for effective discovery, programming, and integration of services exposed in IoT

While Internet of Things has emerged as a great opportunity for industrial investigations and similarly pursued by research communities, current architectures proposed for creation of IoT environments lack support for efficient and standard way of discovery, composition services, and their integration in scalable manner. We propose Simurgh, a framework to leverage modern state-of-the-art techniques and standards to define, discover and compose “things” and their corresponding services. Our approach allows for efficient discovery of IoT devices and their exposed services, while also considers humans as main players. This new approach facilitates communication between involved entities by forming a ubiquitous environment of IoT elements, described using standard human-and-machine-readable files, which can easily find each other and call advertised IoT services using standard RESTful web APIs. Furthermore, by chaining IoT service calls together to form flows and then combining and orchestrating these flows, end-users can achieve their desired functionality without having to worry about programming skills.