A General Distributed Object Locating Architecture in the Internet of Things

This paper proposes a novel platform for object locating application in the Internet of Things environment. In this platform, objects and inquirers access and query locations using uniform service entry interfaces in heterogeneous services. To build a virtual storage system, services entries integrate enterprise database clusters and a DHT peer-to-peer network built with inquirers´ devices. The DHT network is originally designed for accurate object locating, to enable fuzzy object locating we construct a hierarchical storage overlay network based on the DHT network. This LBS platform simplifies the object locating operation for ordinary inquirers greatly, moreover it provides huge virtual computing and storage resources for small companies and individual developers.