Ubiquitous IoT Sensor Sharing via an Open Self-Manged Marketplace

Ubiquitous IoT sensor sharing is the vision of empowering any IoT application to instantaneously discover and use any of the billions of existing IoT sensors and also permitting the provider of any IoT Sensor to share the IoT sensor procurement, deployment and management with its IoT client applications. In this paper, we propose a solution for realizing this vision. More specifically, describe an open-source Sensor Sharing Marketplace (OpenSenShaMart) that provides a sensor registration service that allows sensor providers to describe their sensors, their data, and related costs. IoT client applications use OpenSenShaMart’s semantic query, integration, and payment services to discover, automatically provision, and pay for the IoT sensor data according to the provided payment terms. OpenSenShaMart autonomically controls the data flow between sensors and their clients, as well as the scalability of its services. This paper presents OpenSenShaMart architecture, interface, open-source implementation, and future research.