Using CCN for Discovery of Missing Physical Items
Cédric Westphal, Bertrand Mathieu, Obaid Amin · 2015
As the number of connected devices to the Internet scales up, as the amount of traffic generated by these devices explodes, it is necessary to reconsider the underlying protocols which will support the Internet of Things. As many devices in the IoT may be sensors or devices which need to provide some information but would not require complex network configuration, CCN/NDN has been suggested as a potential candidate for the IoT (we just use CCN below, and in our implementation, but NDN could apply as well). In this demo, we propose a cyber-physical application of the abstractions natively offered by CCN to emulate an existing function called Tile. Tile is a bluetooth tag combined with a cell phone application; the tag is attached to a valuable object. If the object is misplaced or stolen, a central server is contacted, which pushes the tag ID onto all the nearby devices running the application. The devices then probe for the Bluetooth signal of the tag. If they encounter the tag, they send a response to the server with the tag's position and time.