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Warble: programming abstractions for personalizing interactions in the internet of things

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Nathaniel Wendt,

Christine Julien,

Gruia-Catalin RomanAuthors Info & Claims

MOBILESoft '19: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems

Pages 128 - 139

Published: 25 May 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Advances in sensing and networking along with ubiquitous Internet connectivity have paved the way for today's massive Internet of Thing (IoT) market. Despite the vast potential of connecting to myriad devices across homes, office buildings, and public spaces, there is still a large need to unify the scattered protocols, hubs, and cloud services while personalizing end-user experiences. Enabling personalized IoT experiences requires an expressive and flexible middleware that enables simplified development of applications that address diverse individual needs and seamlessly cross multiple vendors and administrative domains. We introduce Warble: a middleware for such personalized IoT applications; Warble encapsulates device and protocol complexities, represents interaction with IoT devices as flexible programming abstractions, and enables applications to learn from their prior interactions in the IoT on behalf of their users. In this paper, we present Warble's architectural abstractions, API, and implementation. We then evaluate the middleware through a case study application using our Android implementation; this evaluation showcases the novelty of the Warble architecture and its programming abstractions.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3485730.3494115

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Yu HHua JJulien C(2021)Analysis of IFTTT Recipes to Study How Humans Use Internet-of-Things (IoT) DevicesProceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems10.1145/3485730.3494115(537-541)Online publication date: 15-Nov-2021
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