OTALab: um ambiente de experimentação remota de protocolos e aplicações em Internet das Coisas

• Enzo B. Cussuol UFES
• Lucas L. S. Sachetti UFES
• Bruno P. Santos UFOP
• Vinicius F. S. Mota UFES

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbrc_estendido.2022.223464

Abstract

This paper presents the OTALab, a tool for creating and deploying experimentation environments of Internet of Things (IoT) applications in low-cost microcontrollers. The OTALab aims for fast deployment and configuration of an experimentation environment testbed. OTALab has two users profiles: administrators and experimenters. For the former, the OTALab exposes an admin interface able to add/remove IoT devices, services, and functionalities to the system. For the latter, the experimenters, can visualize the available services in each device and submit their own code to the devices through a command line or a Web application. OTALab receives the source code, compiles it to the specific microcontroller, and updates the device’s firmware through the Over the Air (OTA) paradigm. The OTALab is composed by a library of microcontrollers, a device management server, and a Web application. The tool can be instantiated locally or in a distributed fashion, improving its flexibility.

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