Title: Design and implementation of an IoT multi-interface gateway for establishing a digital art interactive system

Authors: Zhi-yong Bai; Chin-Hwa Kuo; Tzu-Chia Wang

Addresses: College of Arts and Design, Beijing Forestry University, 35 Tsinghua East Road, Beijing 100083, China ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamsui Dist., New Taipei City 25137, Taiwan ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamsui Dist., New Taipei City 25137, Taiwan

Abstract: The internet of things (IoTs) can be established by connecting smart objects in a wireless manner. However, a variety of wireless technologies, including Bluetooth, ZigBee, WiFi and infrared, which have been embedded into smart objects or controllers, cannot exchange information since they apply different standards or even work on different frequencies. To provide information exchange in heterogeneous networks, this paper proposes the design and implementation of an IoT multi-interface gateway, which can transform the information into a data which can be recognised by various smart objects. In the implementation, the IoT multi-interface gateway can be used for digital arts or some smart spaces that can automatically control traditional TV, air condition, smart meter, sphygmomanometer, smart phone, etc. The implementation shows that the IoT gateway can exchange data among various smart objects that use different wireless technologies and also guarantee the stability of data conversion time.

Keywords: digital art; multi-interface gateways; heterogeneous networks; identification; interactive systems; IoT; internet of things; smart objects; ubiquitous computing; information exchange; smart spaces; wireless communications.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2016.075376

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2016 Vol.21 No.3, pp.157 - 170

Received: 09 Dec 2013
Accepted: 28 Mar 2014
Published online: 18 Mar 2016 *

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