The Internet of Things Has a Gateway Problem
Thomas Zachariah, Noah Klugman, Brad Campbell, Josh Adkins, Neal Jackson, Prabal Dutta

Citation
Thomas Zachariah, Noah Klugman, Brad Campbell, Josh Adkins, Neal Jackson, Prabal Dutta. "The Internet of Things Has a Gateway Problem". HotMobile '15 Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, ACM, 27-32, 12, February, 2015.

Abstract
The vision of an Internet of Things (IoT) has captured the imagination of the world and raised billions of dollars, all before we stopped to deeply consider how all these Things should connect to the Internet. The current state of the art re- quires the implementation of application-layer gateways both in software and hardware that provide application-speci c connectivity to IoT devices. In much the same way that it would be dicult to imagine requiring a new web browser for each website, it is hard to imagine our current approach to IoT connectivity scaling to support the IoT vision. To address this disconnect, we propose an architecture that leverages the increasingly ubiquitous presence of Bluetooth Low Energy radios to connect IoT peripherals to the Internet. In much the same way that WiFi APs revolutionized laptop utility, we envision a worldwide deployment of IoT gateways could revolutionize application agnostic connectivity, thus breaking free from the stove-piped architectures now taking hold. In this paper, we present our architecture, show example ap- plications enabled by it, and explore challenges in moving forward with implementation and deployment.

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    Thomas Zachariah, Noah Klugman, Brad Campbell, Josh Adkins,
    Neal Jackson, Prabal Dutta. <a
    href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/470.html"
    >The Internet of Things Has a Gateway Problem</a>,
    HotMobile '15 Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop
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    Thomas Zachariah, Noah Klugman, Brad Campbell, Josh Adkins,
    Neal Jackson, Prabal Dutta. "The Internet of Things Has
    a Gateway Problem". HotMobile '15 Proceedings of the
    16th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and
    Applications, ACM, 27-32, 12, February, 2015.
  • BibTeX
    @inproceedings{ZachariahKlugmanCampbellAdkinsJacksonDutta15_InternetOfThingsHasGatewayProblem,
        author = {Thomas Zachariah and Noah Klugman and Brad
                  Campbell and Josh Adkins and Neal Jackson and
                  Prabal Dutta},
        title = {The Internet of Things Has a Gateway Problem},
        booktitle = {HotMobile '15 Proceedings of the 16th
                  International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems
                  and Applications},
        organization = {ACM},
        pages = {27-32},
        day = {12},
        month = {February},
        year = {2015},
        abstract = {The vision of an Internet of Things (IoT) has
                  captured the imagination of the world and raised
                  billions of dollars, all before we stopped to
                  deeply consider how all these Things should
                  connect to the Internet. The current state of the
                  art re- quires the implementation of
                  application-layer gateways both in software and
                  hardware that provide application-specic
                  connectivity to IoT devices. In much the same way
                  that it would be dicult to imagine requiring a
                  new web browser for each website, it is hard to
                  imagine our current approach to IoT connectivity
                  scaling to support the IoT vision. To address this
                  disconnect, we propose an architecture that
                  leverages the increasingly ubiquitous presence of
                  Bluetooth Low Energy radios to connect IoT
                  peripherals to the Internet. In much the same way
                  that WiFi APs revolutionized laptop utility, we
                  envision a worldwide deployment of IoT gateways
                  could revolutionize application agnostic
                  connectivity, thus breaking free from the
                  stove-piped architectures now taking hold. In this
                  paper, we present our architecture, show example
                  ap- plications enabled by it, and explore
                  challenges in moving forward with implementation
                  and deployment. },
        URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/470.html}
    }
    

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