Hardware-in-the-loop simulation for Internet of Things scenarios

The Internet of Things is an increasingly complex ecosystem, which includes many different tightly interwoven domains. Therefore, the development of IoT applications and devices has to consider interoperability between various communication systems, domains, platforms and protocols. Throughout the whole development cycle continuous testing and validation can help to identify and conquer system errors. To facilitate this process, simulation is a suitable tool. In this paper, we present an approach for simulation of large-scale Internet of Things scenarios with Hardware-in-the-loop integration. This was achieved by extending omnet++ to connect a simulated model to real world devices.