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The Internet of Things (IoT) is a constantly growing domain in information technology that involves various hardware and software layers and many different programming abstractions and paradigms. As such, a large number of IoT middleware systems has grown together with the IoT. Hence, selecting an IoT middleware is therefore a time-consuming task, if the goal is to achieve interoperability between all devices and retaining their functionality.
A systematics for classifying, comparing, and ranking various IoT middleware offerings reduces complexity in the selection process and provides insights regarding a feature-wise comparison. In this paper, we introduce such a systematics and apply it on a large set of open source middleware systems orientated towards IoT. Concerning the best overall ranking, ThingsBoard emerged as the candidate with the highest score.
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Held, F., Schauz, P., Domaschka, J. (2022). A Systematic Comparison of IoT Middleware. In: Montesi, F., Papadopoulos, G.A., Zimmermann, W. (eds) Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. ESOCC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13226. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04718-3_5
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