Sunflower: an environment for standardized communication of IoMusT
Rômulo Vieira, Flávio Luiz Schiavoni · 2021
The Internet of Musical Things (IoMusT) area, although recent, has well-defined aspects concerning musical practice via the network. However, several challenges are also present, from those related to musical and artistic practice, even those dealing with environmental and social issues. From a computational point of view, the main dilemmas revolve around the lack of resources to deal with heterogeneity and the lack of standard in the communication of the devices that make up this scenario. Therefore, this paper presents Sunflower, a tool inspired by the Pipes-and-Filters architecture that allows communication between different objects, and focuses on its usage protocol. Its layered structure is also presented, showing the types of data, messages, and musical things present in each one of them. After all, the tests and results that certify to the functionality of this environment are demonstrated.