SDL - The IoT Language

Edel Sherratt, Ileana Ober, Emmanuel Gaudin, Pau Fonseca i Casas, Finn Kristoffersen

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Abstract

Interconnected smart devices constitute a large and rapidly growing element of the contemporary Internet. A smart thing can be as simple as a web-enabled device that collects and transmits sensor data to a repository for analysis, or as complex as a web-enabled system to monitor and manage a smart home. Smart things present marvellous opportunities, but when they participate in complex systems, they challenge our ability to manage risk and ensure reliability.

SDL, the ITU Standard Specification and Description Language, provides many advantages for modelling and simulating communicating agents --- such as smart things --- before they are deployed. The potential for SDL to enhance reliability and safety is explored with respect to existing smart things below.

But SDL must advance if it is to become the language of choice for developing the next generation of smart things. In particular, it must target emerging IoT platforms, it must support simulation of interactions between pre-existing smart things and new smart things, and it must facilitate deployment of large numbers of similar things. Moreover, awareness of the potential benefits of SDL must be raised if those benefits are to be realized in the current and future Internet of Things.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 17th International SDL Forum on SDL 2015: Model-Driven Engineering for Smart Cities
EditorsJoachim Fischer, Markus Scheidgen, Ina Schieferdecker, Rick Reed
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages27-41
Number of pages15
VolumeLNCS 9369
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-24912-4
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-24911-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer-Verlag
Volume9369
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Keywords

  • sdl
  • z.100
  • Internet of things
  • IoT
  • modelling
  • simulation
  • reliability
  • smart things

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