Search engine based resource discovery framework for Internet of Things

This paper proposes a search engine based resource discovery framework for Internet of Things (IoT) to discover resources, their capabilities, properties and URIs to access them regardless of communication technology. There is a central registry to store configurations of resources and they are indexed. Based on discovery request parameters, the search engine "looks up" the indices and returns the URI(s) to directly access the resource(s). The functionalities of the proposed framework are exposed to the consumers using RESTful web services. The framework is generic enough to be deployed in cloud platforms, M2M gateways and lightweight mobile application running on smartphones.