T-Suite: A RESTful Distributed Development and Runtime Environment on Things Devices

Tens of billions of IoT devices are connecting to the Internet, entailing several essential issues such as high response latency of IoT applications, network congestion, and privacy. New computing paradigms are rising and trying to offload the computation from could to edge and things devices. Due to the extremely resource-constrained environment and distributed architecture, that developing and deploying applications on heterogeneous low-end IoT devices to afford the computing load is a significant challenge for developers. In this paper, we propose T-Suite, a lightweight script application development and runtime framework based on REST style for IoT devices. T-Suite includes a RESTful development and deployment environment and a mixed runtime environment which can improve the performance of script applications. A series of micro-benchmarks are conducted, and the results show that T-Suite enables scripting on MCU based IoT devices with a little increment of computing resource consumption.