Event-based communication for IoT networking

In the Internet of Things (IoT), smart devices embedded on a myriad of different objects will enable monitoring, control, and optimization with potentially transformative impact to the society. Evidently, operational efficiency has become an essential factor in the proliferation of these devices since higher efficiency will prolong device lifetime and achieve greater autonomy. In this work, the operational efficiency challenge is being looked at from the device point of view as well as from the networking side of things in which local and remote hosts need to exchange information for monitoring, control, and optimization functionalities. In the former case, a data-driven event triggering technique is developed to minimize the interaction between devices, while in the latter case an event-based communication strategy is investigated to minimize the overall energy consumption of the network. Both experimental results and results for a real-world application are presented to demonstrate the many-fold operational efficiency gains that can be realized using the proposed solution.