PhD Forum Abstract: I/Ocloud: Adopting the IaaS Paradigm in the Internet of Things

In most of the actual Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, data processing/management tasks are often delegated to Cloud-based platforms. In such scenarios, the IoT applications’ developers see the IoT infrastructure as a mere data provider. To challenge the mainstream consensus on the relationship between the Cloud and IoT and provide flexible, shareable, and reconfigurable IoT deployments, we aim to expand the benefits of the Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) paradigm to the IoT world. In particular, our view is to adapt the Cloud metaphors to IoT by merging the two ecosystems at the broadest level. The IoT infrastructure can be seen then as a natural extension of a datacenter by abstracting their hosted I/O resources (e.g., sensors and actuators) through file system virtualization.