On applicability of wireless routers to deployment of smart spaces in Internet of Things environments

The use of wireless technologies and low-capacity devices is now inevitable in smart spaces development for Internet of Things (IoT). A smart space is created by deploying a Semantic Information Broker (SIB) on a host device. This paper examines the applicability of a wireless router for being a SIB host device and creating a smart space in the IoT environment. CuteSIB is one of SIB implementations in the Smart-M3 platform and the focus is on Qt-based devices. We provide a technique for creating an OpenWrt-based embedded system composed of CuteSIB software components for a smart spaces deployment using a cross-compiling method. The resulting embedded system is used to deploy the SmartRoom system — a Smart-M3-based application that creates a virtual shared workspace in a multimedia equipped room to support collaborative activity of participants. Our experiments confirm that capacity of a wireless router is satisfactory for deployment of this class of Smart-M3 applications.