Robotic Extension to IoT Testbed for Indoor Environment Supervision

“Things” of IoT networks could be as simple as sensors with communication interfaces or they could also be intelligent autonomous agents, capable of sensing, processing, communication and decision making. That is, things of the IoT network can also be robots. Such robotic extensions add advantages of mobility and cognition to the IoT network. Also, the merger of IoT and robotics technologies resulted in innovative applications like intelligent transport and companion robots. In this paper, we discuss the design aspects of extending an IoT testbed based on Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana, to accommodate robots. The issues, solutions and advantages of such extensions are described. Practical realization of this extension is shown along with an application use case of indoor environment supervision of a smart building.