NETIoT: A Versatile IoT Platform Integrating Sensors and Applications

In the landscape of IoT platforms there are many solutions working at various levels for collecting data and supporting a specialized set of IoT services. Generally, the responsibility for building the application that uses the data as such collected is left externally, in the hand of a developer working with a set of APIs made available by the IoT platform. In this paper we present an alternative approach, where the design of the platform is centered around the applications being supported by a particular set of data coming from IoT devices. With NETIoT, we support modular applications (similar to how Web mashups are constructed) that integrate a collection of rich capabilities, from data collection in IoT technology, to queuing, processing, or integrated data visualization.