Monitoring And Controlling Facility for Autonomous M2M Networks

Today the Machine-to-Machine (M2M) architectures are based on some types of centralized elements. The centralized elements are often physical servers that provide a set of functionalities for sensors and actuators in M2M networks. The provided functions can be, for example, functions that provide protocol conversion, or monitoring and controlling facilities. The goal of this work in DIEM is to create building blocks for such M2M architectures that reduce network's dependency of centralized elements. The dependency is reduced by shifting functionalities from centralized elements to sensor and actuator devices which can be considered as edge-devices in M2M networks. The resulting M2M network architecture is referred to, in this context, as autonomous M2M network. In DIEM, the functionalities that are shifted to edge-device are related to two topics: protocol conversion (proxying), and monitoring and controlling. This work is divided into two implementation-oriented deliverables, 5.10.1 and 5.10.2.

In 5.10.2, Monitoring And Controlling Facility for Autonomous M2M Networks, a software module for monitoring and controlling autonomous M2M networks has been designed and implemented. A key feature of the monitoring and controlling software is that it does not have to be continuously present in a M2M network, like most of the monitoring and controlling applications today. The monitoring and controlling facility provides information about the devices in the M2M network and to allow the manipulation of devices configuration parameters.