Hardware emulation of IoT devices and verification of application behavior

In recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) systems have been studied and discussed actively. The performance evaluation of IoT systems using hardware emulation is an important topic in Research and development (R&D), because it is prohibitive in terms of resources to use real devices as traffic sources for a large system evaluation of the IoT network. This study proposes an IoT device with traffic generating functions as a hardware emulation of traffic source in an IoT network. The specifications and implementation of the IoT device are presented. Furthermore, the study also proposes application cases for the proposed device in an Intelligent Transport System (ITS).