Hyper-Environments: A Different Way to Think about IoT

The current technological scenario presents different mobile devices, which support wireless communication at an increasingly low cost. This all makes it possible to build systems thought to be impossible. The utilization of computational and natural elements, and the mixing of virtual and real elements, set up a complex relationship between elements. A good organization of these relations would enable the construction of complex systems that would bring countless benefits to users. This work presents an architecture to build hyper-environments, term proposed in this paper to define the interconnection between smart environments (which involve different elements, technological or not, real and/or virtual).The proposed architecture presents a taxonomy and a set of concepts for the organization of the hyper-environmental elements. It also offers directions to implement a middleware for building such systems. To validate the work, a hyper environment will be built using a middleware implemented based on the proposed architecture.