Research Article
SensorHUB: An IoT Driver Framework for Supporting
Sensor Networks and Data Analysis
László Lengyel, Péter Ekler, Tamás Ujj, Tamás Balogh, and Hassan Charaf
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1117 Magyar Tud´ osok k¨ or´ utja 2, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
Correspondence should be addressed to L´ aszl´ o Lengyel; lengyel@aut.bme.hu
Received 6 May 2015; Revised 30 June 2015; Accepted 13 July 2015
Academic Editor: Yong Lee
Copyright © 2015 L´ aszl´ o Lengyel et al. Tis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,
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Te Internet of Tings (IoT) is transforming the surrounding everyday physical objects into an ecosystem of information that
enriches our everyday life. Te IoT represents the convergence of advances in miniaturization, wireless connectivity, and increased
data storage and is driven by various sensors. Sensors detect and measure changes in position, temperature, light, and many
others; furthermore, they are necessary to turn billions of objects into data-generating “things” that can report on their status
and ofen interact with their environment. Application and service development methods and frameworks are required to support
the realization of solutions covering data collection, transmission, data processing, analysis, reporting, and advanced querying.
Tis paper introduces the SensorHUB framework that utilizes the state-of-the-art open source technologies and provides a unifed
tool chain for IoT related application and service development. SensorHUB is both a method and an environment to support IoT
related application and service development; furthermore, it supports the data monetization approach, that is, provides a method
to defne data views on top of diferent data sources and analyzed data. Te framework is available in a Platform as a Service (PaaS)
model and has been applied for the vehicle, health, production lines, and smart city domains.
1. Introduction
Te goal of the Internet of Tings (IoT) is to increase the
connectedness of people and things. Te IoT is the net-
work of physical things equipped with electronics, sofware,
sensors, and connectivity that provides greater value and
better service by exchanging data with the manufacturer,
operator, and/or other connected devices. Each element of the
network, that is, each thing, is uniquely identifable through
its embedded computing system and is able to interoperate
within the existing Internet infrastructure [1].
Tings in the IoT can refer to a wide variety of devices
such as biochips on farm animals, heart monitoring implants,
production line sensors in factories, vehicles with built-in
sensors, or feld operation devices that assist frefghters
[2]. Tese devices collect useful data with the help of vari-
ous existing technologies, then autonomously fow the data
between other devices, and usually upload them into a data
center environment for further processing.
Te IoT together with the collected and analyzed data
can help consumers achieve goals by greatly improving their
decision-making capacity via the augmented intelligence of
the IoT. For businesses, the Internet of Business Tings
helps companies achieve enhanced process optimization and
efciency by collecting and reporting on data collected from
the business environment. More and more businesses are
adding sensors to people, places, processes, and products
to gather and analyze information in order to make better
decisions and increase transparency [3].
Various sensors drive the IoT ecosystems and make the
things active elements. Tey are our eyes and ears to what
is going on in the world. IoT sensors are also expected
to generate large amounts of data from diverse locations
and various domains; for example, weather, transportation,
and communication data can be aggregated, analyzed, and
utilized for support diferent felds, for example, smart city
services [4].
Undoubtedly, the Internet of Tings has reached and is
about to dominate several domains. Top industries investing
in sensors and utilizing data collected by them are as follows
(some of them are still in active research phase, because of
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2015, Article ID 454379, 12 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/454379