Neuro-Foundation Harmonized IoT Interfaces

This repository contains Neuro-Foundation XMPP interfaces for the Internet of Things and Smart Societies. For usage of the contents on this site, see the open source license agreement.

Introduction

Neuro-Foundation presents communication infrastructure for a globally scalable, distributed infrastructure for smart societies, supporting:

• Local governance
• Definition of ownership
• Protection of privacy
• Consent-based communication
• High level of cybersecurity
• Cross-domain interoperability
• Cross-technology interoperability

For a brief introduction to the Neuro-Foundation infrastructure, and how it works, see the Overview. If you want to test integration services, brokers or devices, cybercity.online is available for this purpose.

Representation

• Sensor Data
• Control Parameters

Communication Patterns

• Sensor Data Request/Response communication pattern
• Sensor Data Event Subscription communication pattern
• Sensor Data Publish/Subscribe communication pattern
• Simple Control Actions
• Data Form Control Actions
• Queues
• Quality of Service

Data Protection, Security and Privacy

• Identities
• Authentication
• Basic Authorization
• Binding
• Transport Encryption
• Federation
• Tokens for distributed transactions
• Decision Support for devices
• Provisioning for owners
• Peer-to-Peer communication
• End-to-End encryption

Operation

• Concentrators (“Things of Things”)
• Discovery
• Clock & Event Synchronization
• Software Updates

Agreements

• Legal Identities
• Smart Contracts
• Automatic provisioning using smart contracts

Schemas

XML Schemas in alphabetical order:

• Concentrator.xsd
• Control.xsd
• Discovery.xsd
• E2E.xsd
• EventSubscription.xsd
• LegalIdentities.xsd
• P2P.xsd
• ProvisioningDevice.xsd
• ProvisioningOwner.xsd
• ProvisioningTokens.xsd
• SensorData.xsd
• SmartContracts.xsd
• SoftwareUpdates.xsd
• Synchronization.xsd

Agent API

A simplified HTTP-based RESTful API called the Agent API is also available. It maps HTTP requests to the Neuro-Foundation interface operations. Due to limitations of the HTTP protocol, it does not have full support of features that do not conform to the basic request-response pattern available in HTTP.

Software

A list of software available implementing the interfaces defined on this site, is available in the Implementations page.