An Elastic IoT Device Management Platform

Abstract: With the recent advancement of technologies over the past year, IoT has become a paradigm in which devices communicate with each other and the cloud to achieve various applications in multidisciplinary fields. However, developing, deploying, and experimenting with IoT applications are still tedious, expensive, and time-consuming due to the factors like heterogeneity of hardware and software. This is where an IoT testbed plays a vital role in aiding developers to test their applications without being deploying it to the target environment. In this paper, we present a testbed that is scalable for heterogeneous devices and mainly focused on a small scale and medium scale IoT application. This testbed would be best suited for testing applications which demand robust nature, remote monitoring and control, incorporation of heterogeneous devices, location tracking of devices, and easy troubleshooting with security and internet connectivity concerns. This testbed is also embraced with the feature to work limit access to the internet. A detailed explanation of the design and architecture of the proposed testbed is provided. We also present a conceptual prototype of the testbed and the results obtained on experimenting under various conditions.