Middleware for IOT: the Hydra Project

“Hydra aims to reduce the complexity by developing a service-oriented middleware,” explains Markus Eisenhauer, the project coordinator, who works at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology."

"Networked sensors and devices have huge potential but how can we ensure that they can all talk to each other? The answer, according to a European consortium, is to link them seamlessly through a common ‘middleware’. In these energy conscious times, the old idea of home automation is being revived to give the householder finer control over the many devices in the home. Most proposals envisage devices (embedded systems) – such as the heating, lighting and ventilation systems – being able to communicate with each other in a wireless network.

How can different devices, using different technologies and made by different manufacturers at different times, communicate with one another?"

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