UAVs at Your Service: Towards IoT Integration with HAMSTER

Due to their characteristics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are natural candidates to be integrated to the Internet of Things (IoT). However, offering UAV services through the IoT and Cloud Computing is not an easy task. Resources and services made available to clients need to be properly identified and registered; the UAV must be prepared to provide services autonomously to both human and machine clients, which can be very heterogeneous regarding to computational and networking resources; information security and data privacy must be taken into account. In this paper, we present the Service Exchange Management Unit (SEMU), a service provision platform for UAVs that aims to support service exchange taking into account portability and security issues. The platform design and operation are outlined, exposing how SEMU can support UAVs and other types of vehicles to provide services to each other and to external clients, making it possible for them to be integrated in the IoT.