Strategies for Intelligent Registration of IoT Devices

The heterogeneity of the underlying devices introduced significant technical challenges for interoperability in the Internet of Things (IoT), as a rapidly increasing landscape of IoT devices. A unified form of device registration is an important method to shield the heterogeneity. However, most solutions were to focus on the abstraction of device data. Notably, device description information is also necessary. For example, we can deploy the operation temperature of the device in its range to ensure normal operation of the device. However, the device description information registration methods mainly rely on developers entering manually, which causes inefficiency and high information error rate under the cases of many devices. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an excellent strategy for the intelligent registration of IoT devices.In this paper, we proposed the device intelligent registration strategy by a semantic ontology-based IoT device registration middleware (IDRM): (1) It achieves automatic registration by using automatic recognition and ontology matching of banner information from device application protocol. (2) It realizes registration with converting manual submitted by device vendor users into ontology-based device information. Our experimental results show that IDRM implements Plug-and-Play (PnP) for devices by providing an intelligent registration strategy to shield the heterogeneity of underlying devices.