Everything as a resource: Foundations and illustration through Internet-of-things

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Computers in Industry

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Abstract

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. This paper presents Everything-as-a-Resource (*aaR) as a paradigm for designing collaborative applications on the Web. Abstracting these applications’ various physical and logical entities, resources are defined in a way that permits their discovery, composition, and participation in business scenarios. Compared to Everything-as-a-Service (*aaS), resources are categorized into computational, consumed, and produced, have trackable lifecycles as per their respective category, and are customized in order to consider the characteristics of future resource-based collaborative applications to develop. From a capacity perspective, a computational resource processes data, a produced resource abstracts data, and a consumed resource captures data. Along with their capacities, resources expose methods that other resources and/or applications’ stakeholders call. The proper call of methods is ensured through restrictions like limited and non-shareable. This paper exemplifies the *aaR paradigm with a case study that revolves around the use of Internet-of-Things (IoT) in the healthcare domain. The case study is implemented in a RESTful fashion along with some standard Web technologies and protocols. The evaluation of IoTR4HealthCare system is benchmarked against two existing systems using cost and latency criteria.

ISSN

0166-3615

Publisher

Elsevier B.V.

Volume

94

First Page

62

Last Page

74

Disciplines

Computer Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences

Keywords

Everything-as-a-Resource, Everything-as-a-Service, Healthcare, Internet of Things, Resource, Restriction

Scopus ID

85032262915

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository

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