The IoT.est project involves 8 partners from 7 countries to develop a test-driven service creation environment for Internet of Things enabled business services. The environment will allow acquisition of sensor and device data and control of actuators across domains. It will also facilitate run-time monitoring and autonomous service adaptation to changes in environment, context, and network parameters. The IoT.est architecture builds upon existing IoT platforms by providing common interfaces, resource control and management, security and privacy mechanisms, and discovery services.

1. Architectural issues in the IoT.est Project
Payam Barnaghi
Centre for Communication Systems Research
University of Surrey
Guildford, UK
IoT Architecture @ IoT Week 2012
19 June, 2012, Venice, Italy

2. Consortium
• 8 partners, 7 countries
• Project Lead:
CCSR, University of Surrey
• Duration:
36 months
Industry PTIN, ATOS, SIE
SME TT, AI
Research Centre NICT
Higher Education UNIS, UASO

3. IoT.est – a quick snapshot
• IoT.est will develop a test-driven service creation environment (SCE)
for Internet of Things enabled business services.
• The SCE will enable the acquisition of data and control/actuation of
sensors, objects and actuators.
• The project will provide the means and tools to define and instantiate
IoT services that exploit data across domain boundaries;
• IoT.est will facilitate run-time monitoring and will enable autonomous
service adaptation to environment/context and network parameter
(e.g. QoS) changes.

4. IoT.est Architecture

5. IoT.est architecture- requirements from
existing platforms
• Common interfaces to access low-level IoT
resources (O&M data, service and management
data access)
• Control and management of resources
• Resource handling, co-current and multiple
access,
• Security and privacy mechanisms
• Discovery, directory, and publish/subscribe
services

6. A layered view
Green circles:
directly
addressed
In IoT.est
Red Circles:
To be used from
existing IoT
platforms

7. IoT.est project: Internet of Things Environment for Service
Creation and Testing
http://ict-iotest.eu/iotest/