Managing the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) offers many interesting solutions to problems encountered in a range of application areas. The potentially huge number and the diversity of things that may be part of such an infrastructure can pose prominent issues for their systemic management. This paper explores such issues and proposes a management platform that partially addresses them. More specifically, our proposed IoT Management Platform (IoT-MP) takes into account the fact that things, in general, have limited power, computation, and communication resources available to them. The proposed platform supports fundamental management functions, including those needed for proper operation, monitoring and communications. After introducing the architecture and the major components of the platform, we show the advantages of our proposed approach through some simulation studies.