One world is not enough: Development of a software system for connecting ZigBee devices to an IoT gateway

One world is not enough: Development of a software system for connecting ZigBee devices to an IoT gateway

Van Bekkum, R.
Van Belzen, J.C.
Li, H.Y.V.

Venkatesha Prasad, R.R. (mentor)

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Software and Computer Technology

Bachelor Technische Informatica

2015-07-01

With the dawn of the era of the Internet of Things(IoT) more everyday objects are equipped with technology that allows them to be connected to the Internet and therefore enabling (remotely) controlling or gathering data from these objects. DSP Innovation B.V. aims to respond on this emerging development by introducing a second generation IoT gateway to be used in combination with their SWYCS energy management solutions. During this project a software system for this new gateway has been developed, which allows several third-party ZigBee-enabled devices to connect to the gateway. The software system allows for remotely retrieving real-time device data and modifying the configurations of devices connected to the IoT gateway. Measurement data of the devices connected to the gateway is automatically stored by the developed software solution and regularly pushed to the DSP cloud servers via a secure connection. The historical data in the DSP cloud servers can be used by the already existing SWYCS software solutions to provide their customers with insights of their energy usage and automatically assisting them in achieving energy savings in their company. To come to the design of the software system for the IoT gateway research was done into the various communication protocols that could be used and the hardware that was used. For the current application, the ZigBee communication protocol with the ZigBee Home Automation stack was found to be the most appropriate choice, even though the software system also supports connecting lighting appliances operating using ZigBee Light Link. At the end of the project a fully functional prototype of the software system has been delivered. While the delivered system is a prototype it is not production-ready yet. An automated software installation and update process should be integrated and support for more devices should be added when the system is prepared for production and presentation to customers.

Internet of Things
ZigBee

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Student theses

bachelor thesis

(c) 2015 Van Bekkum, R.
Van Belzen, J.C.
Li, H.Y.V.