A microservice-based platform for IoT application development

Modern Internet of Things ecosystems and applications must be able to cope with an increasing demand for flexibility, efficiency, scalability, security. This paper presents CMC-IoT (CRS4 Microservice Core - IoT), an Internet of Things platform built upon a microservice-based architecture, providing tools for developing scalable and robust IoT applications. The platform aims to act as a generic middleware to connect a wide variety of devices, using a connector-driven and vendor-agnostic approach, allowing the development of applications in many domains, as shown in the provided examples. The focus is on the most prominent architectural features of CMC-IoT, that are compared with a reference architecture available in literature.