A Requirements-Based Approach for the Evaluation of Emulated IoT Systems

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a major technological revolution. Evaluating any IoT advancements comprehensively is critical to understand the conditions under which they can be more useful, as well as to assess the robustness and efficiency of IoT systems to validate them before their deployment in real life. Nevertheless, the creation of an appropriate IoT test environment is a difficult, effort-intensive, and expensive task; typically requiring a significant amount of human effort and physical hardware to build it. To tackle this problem, emulation tools to test IoT devices have been proposed. However, there is a lack of systematic approaches for evaluating IoT emulation environments. In this paper, we present a requirements-based framework to enable the systematic evaluation of the suitability of an emulated IoT environment to fulfil the requirements that secure the quality of an adequate test environment for IoT.