Discovery-Driven Service Oriented IoT Architecture

The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem is growing at a staggering pace. Each day, we are witnessing the emergence of new devices, smart phones, cameras and sensors that are connected to the internet. It is envisioned IoT will discover, integrate and exploit such devices and their data in the development of new services and products that can change and positively impact our lives. However, the core IoT functionality (such as discovery and integration) required to develop IoT service and products need to be developed to better support IoT application development. In this paper, we present a vision of a future IoT system architecture that is driven by service discovery across every layer of IoT. This includes on demand discovery and integration of devices, cloud storage and computing resources, as well as existing data analysis, visualisation and application integration services that can be dynamically selected and orchestrated as needed to create IoT applications. We provide descriptions of specific solutions that we are investigating at each of the IoT layer providing core functionalities for service-based discovery and integration.