Service entities model for the internet of things: A bio-inspired collaborative approach

This paper provides a model for internet of things (IoT) establishment. Today and for the coming decades we see rising interest in interconnecting `Things' as we did in the past two decades when we interconnected PCs and servers to build the called Internet. Smart things interconnection is more general and complex due to different challenges: heterogeneity of devices, diversity of protocols, variety or none established standards, self-manageability, self-organization, dynamic architectures, mobility, intermittent availability, distributed computing, security and privacy. Awareness of these challenges is increasing but dedicated solutions are still at the starting-point. Current proposal is a model allowing smart things interconnection and interoperability. It is mainly based on `service' concept but can bind peer models like `object' concept and standard-based architectures. It is, also, a tentative to learn from biological entities and real environment. `Things' in the IoT are at the origin smart electronic devices with some communication capability. These devices, in our concept, are not considered as unique entity but fragmented into a set of services independently of their architecture, functionality and content. Services in IoT are much more than simple data/document exchange, they are expanded, but not limited, to real world actions, metrics and events.