A multi-broker platform for the internet of things

The emerging paradigm of the Internet of Things with millions of devices dynamically interconnected to share data brings in new requirements for applications and infrastructures. New challenges raise in terms of connectivity, resource discovery and support for multidomain distributed applications. Furthermore, the connection parameters of involved devices may dynamically change over time and must be properly discovered. This paper proposes a multi broker platform (MBP) built on top of an existing interoperability platform, Smart-M3. MBP enables the original platform to manage multi-domain scenarios. Furthermore it provides a semantic mechanism for context-broker discovery and a virtualization interface to reach remote nodes.