Towards a unified approach for Distributed Measurement System technologies

Many applications Internet-of-things (loT) based exploit Distributed Measurement System (DMS) to acquire data from sensors equipping objects or measurement instruments constituting the DMS nodes. The heterogeneity of the smart objects used to develop IoT applications has become a challenge in the design of the DMS, and very strong is the need to move towards new paradigm for programming and managing such systems. In fact, a current major limitation in the DMS development is the requirement of a deep knowledge about the different programming language and communication protocols. Aim of this paper is to provide an overview on DMS, focusing on the issues and the different technologies used, highlighting the software and architectural limits to the large diffusion for home automation, with a proposal to overcome them.