Checklist para avaliação da interoperabilidade em dispositivos iot com foco em casas inteligentes

Abstract

With the advancement of technology and the emergence of new needs, society has been looking for new ways to meet these needs by adhering to the use of devices that allow the creation of a smart environment, as is the case of smart homes. Faced with this new demand, companies seek to adopt new technologies to ensure greater interoperability between devices, in order to maintain a proper functioning between them, allowing their users several benefits such as convenience, security and automation. With the increase in the number of connected devices and several manufacturers developing such devices, numerous challenges arise, especially how such devices will interact between them, the type of proper communication, among other aspects. Based on this, this work aims to propose a Checklist for evaluation of interoperability in IoT devices within the scope of smart homes, identify the levels of interoperability, define a base set of IoT devices and applications that are commonly used in smart homes, as well as investigate the components of these devices that are related to Interoperability. To this end, the first version of the Checklist was elaborated based on the literature, interoperability levels and related works. Subsequently, the second version was created, which made it possible to identify improvements to the Checklist. As a result, the first version of the Checklist was able to present a relationship between the Checklist score and the interoperability of the devices, although there was a limitation in the set of devices, the results were promising.