Transparent Rule Enablement Based on Commonization Approach in Heterogeneous IoT Edge Networks

Wenquan Jin; Yong-Geun Hong; Jaeseung Song; Jaeho Kim; Dohyeun Kim

doi:10.3390/s23198282

Transparent Rule Enablement Based on Commonization Approach in Heterogeneous IoT Edge Networks

Sensors (Basel). 2023 Oct 6;23(19):8282. doi: 10.3390/s23198282.

Authors

Wenquan Jin¹, Yong-Geun Hong², Jaeseung Song³, Jaeho Kim⁴, Dohyeun Kim⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Electronic & Communication Engineering, Engineering College, Yanbian University, Yanji 133002, China.
² Department of Artificial Intelligence & Convergence, Daejeon University, Daejeon 300716, Republic of Korea.
³ Department of Computer and Information Security, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Republic of Korea.
⁴ Department of Electric Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Republic of Korea.
⁵ Department of Computer Engineering, Jeju National University, Jeju 63243, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

The paradigm of the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing brings a number of heterogeneous devices to the network edge for monitoring and controlling the environment. For reacting to events dynamically and automatically in the environment, rule-enabled IoT edge platforms operate the deployed service scenarios at the network edge, based on filtering events to perform control actions. However, due to the heterogeneity of the IoT edge networks, deploying a consistent rule context for operating a consistent rule scenario on multiple heterogeneous IoT edge platforms is difficult because of the difference in protocols and data formats. In this paper, we propose a transparent rule enablement, based on the commonization approach, for enabling a consistent rule scenario in heterogeneous IoT edge networks. The proposed IoT Edge Rule Agent Platform (IERAP) deploys device proxies to share consistent rules with IoT edge platforms without considering the difference in protocols and data formats. Therefore, each device proxy only considers the translation of the corresponding platform-specific and common formats. Also, the rules are deployed by the corresponding device proxy, which enables rules to be deployed to heterogeneous IoT edge platforms to perform the consistent rule scenario without considering the format and underlying protocols of the destination platform.

Keywords: EdgeX; Internet of Things; Open Connectivity Foundation; edge computing; proxy; rules engine; transparent computing.

Grants and funding

This research was supported in part by the Energy Cloud R&D Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT (2019M3F2A1073387) and in part by the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (2021-0-00188, Open-source development and standardization for AI enabled IoT platforms and interworking). Any correspondence related to this paper should be addressed to Dohyeun Kim.