Management and Internet of Things

The study and development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, web and mobile, is on the increase. Applications, working with data obtained from different areas such as transportation, smart homes, health care, public services, industry and many others. Previous studies have focused on managing the obtained data. However, managing the heterogeneous resources that get that data is an area that demands more attention. This work addresses the management of resources in the Internet of Things. This is achieved by proposing a virtual-resource edge layer, which enables access and configuration to constrained physical resources. The architecture presented focuses on the use of virtual resources as a management concept and identifies different approaches in the performance evaluation on edge computing devices. Using the IoT protocol CoAP, virtual resources are exposed in the edge network. An evaluation of a Go CoAP virtual resource is presented.