A Novel Architecture for Cognitive Internet of Things

Internet of Things (IoT) represents the extension and evolution of the Internet, which has great potential and prospects for modern intelligent service and applications. However the current IoT is still based on traditional static architectures and models by our deep investigation. It lacks enough intelligence and cannot comply with the increasing application performance requirements. By integrating cognition into IoT, we present a new concept of Cognitive Internet of Things (CIoT) and its corresponding intelligent architecture. CIoT consists of Protocol Plane, Cognitive Plane and Control Plane modules and involves some novel designed models such as layer protocol stack, three-layer cognitive rings. Based on the proposed CIoT, we finally develop an actual application system to address the transportation and dispatching for ready-mixed concrete. The statistical results show that the new dispatching pattern with CIoT can achieve higher efficiency of transportation and dispatching with lower oil consumption than traditional dispatching pattern.