Successfully defended my final degree project with highest honors

I am thrilled to announce that I have successfully defended my final degree project (bachelor thesis), earning the highest distinction of “matrícula de honor”. The dissertation, with the title “Virtualización de dispositivos para servicios en la Ciudad del Futuro”, is now available in the institutional repository of UPM.

The focus of my bachelor thesis was on the rapidly evolving field of the Internet of Things (IoT). The increasing interconnectivity of devices is revolutionizing service provision, both in quantity and variety. My work explored how to virtualize services offered by diverse devices, enabling them to interoperate within a network. This involved designing and developing a service gateway to make sensor network resources accessible via the web, creating a device and service registry, and studying frameworks for composing services in networks with limited resources.

The project leveraged a service-oriented mediation layer called nSOM, developed at the Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica de Telecomunicación (EUITT). The research delved into technologies for device interoperability, wireless sensor networks, Machine-to-Machine communications, and the Web of Things, providing a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in these areas.

This project (Lucas-Martínez, 2013) was conducted as part of the European research project WoO, under the auspices of my scholarship with the GRyS research group.

I am deeply grateful for the support and guidance I received throughout this journey and look forward to continuing my contributions to the field.

Key Highlights

Main Objective: Proposes a method to virtualize services offered by various interconnected devices, enhancing their interoperability within a network.
Context: The increasing interconnection of devices is revolutionizing service delivery, aligning with the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the City of the Future.
Technical Proposal: Utilizes a service-oriented middleware layer called nSOM, developed at EUITT. Key objectives include:
- Designing and developing a web-accessible service gateway.
- Creating a registry of devices and services.
- Developing a framework for orchestrated service composition in resource-constrained networks.
Impact: Enhances quality of life and opens city governance to citizen participation, contributing to sustainable and competitive growth.

Bachelor Thesis Data

Title: Virtualización de dispositivos para servicios en la Ciudad del Futuro

Author: Néstor Lucas Martínez

Supervisor: José-Fernán Martínez Ortega

Visual References

On the left, the SunSPOT devices used in the project. Right, the computer used as a gateway.

On the left, the validation scenario. Right, the architecture subsystems.

References

2013

UPM
Virtualización de dispositivos para servicios en la Ciudad del Futuro

Néstor Lucas-Martínez

Sep 2013

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Néstor Lucas Martínez received the highest qualification, “Matrícula de Honor”, for his Bachelor Thesis.

The increasing of the capabilities of all kind of devices is causing a revolution in the field of the provision of services, both in quantity and in diversity. This situation has highlighted the need to address unprecedented technological development, where the forecast of interconnected and interoperable devices between them and human beings reaches the order of billions. And these numbers go further when the connectivity of constrained networks is taken into account. This idea of an interconnected world of things has led to a vision that has been called "The Internet of Things". It’s a vision of a world where things of any kind can interact with other things, even those in the domain of a constrained network. This also leads to the creation of new composed services that exceed the sum of the parts. Besides the technological interest, this new vision relates with the one from the Smart City. A concept that uses the convergence of the energy, the transport, and the information and communication technologies to define a way to achieve sustainable and competitive growth, improving the quality of life, and opening the governance of the cities to the participation. In the development pathway to reach these goals, this Final Degree Dissertation proposes a way for the virtualization of the services offered by the variety of devices that are reaching the ability to interoperate in a network. For this it is supported by a service oriented middleware called nSOM that has been developed at EUITT. Using this architecture the goals proposed for this project are the design and development of a service gateway that makes available the resources of a sensor network through a web interface; the design and development of a Device & Service Registry according to the reference architecture proposal for the Internet of Things; and the study and design of a composition framework for orchestrated services in constrained networks. To achieve these goals this dissertation begins with a State of the Art study where the background knowledge about the technologies in use for the interoperation of things will be settled. At first it starts talking about Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks, the architectures for Machine-to-Machine communication and Internet of Things, and also the concepts for the Web of Things vision. Next the related network and services technologies are explored, ending with a brief review of service composition technologies. Then will follow a detailed description of the nSOM architecture, and also of the proposed design for this project. Finally a scenario will be proposed where a series of validation tests will be conducted.
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