Open Data and Messaging Standards: Enabling On-the-Go Operation of IT and Non-IT Resources via IoT Devices

By cognitively leveraging a bevy of cloud technologies and tools, the information technology (IT) environments and data centers are increasingly being empowered to be highly optimized and organized to be elegantly lean, green, elastic and workload-aware. Further on, our everyday environments (personal, professional and social) are also technologically equipped to be smarter in their operations and outputs. That is, scores of smarter homes, hospitals, hotels, etc. Are being systematically realized with the adoption and adaption of the promising and powerful digitization and edge technologies, sophisticated applications, connected devices, reflective middleware solutions, integrated IT platforms and state-of-the-art IT infrastructures. On the users' side, there are new slim and sleek, handy and trendy digital assistants, wearables, smartphones, point of sales (PoS), tablets, etc. Fast emerging and evolving. The brewing trend is that these new-generation devices are being increasingly leveraged to access, use and operate the emerging IT and other everyday environments and the resources within remotely on the go. The challenge is how to enable the ubiquitous and unambiguous operation of those different and distributed resources using these pervasive devices and on the other side, how notifications and other useful information from any server-side resources can be pushed to those authorized devices in order to enable the device users to contemplate the next and best course of actions in time with all the clarity and confidence. In this paper, we have described a viable and standards-centric solution along with a pilot implementation details.