An Architecture for Self-Aware IOT Applications

Abstract

Future Internet of Things (IoT) applications will face challenges in increased flexibility, uncertainty, dynamics and scalability. Self-aware computing maintains knowledge about the applications state and environment and then uses this knowledge to reason about and adapt behaviours. In this position paper, we introduce self-aware computing as design approach for IoT applications which is centred around a self-aware architecture for IoT nodes. This architecture particularly supports adaptations based on node interactions. We demonstrate our approach with an IoT case study on multi-object coverage with mobile cameras.