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Mastering Internet of Things

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788397483
Pages 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Peter Waher Peter Waher
Profile icon Peter Waher

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Preparing Our First Raspberry Pi Project 2. Creating a Sensor to Measure Ambient Light 3. Creating an Actuator for Controlling Illumination 4. Publishing Information Using MQTT 5. Publishing Data Using HTTP 6. Creating Web Pages for Your Devices 7. Communicating More Efficiently Using CoAP 8. Interoperability 9. Social Interaction with Your Devices Using XMPP 10. The Controller 11. Product Life Cycle 12. Concentrators and Bridges 13. Using an Internet of Things Service Platform 14. IoT Harmonization 15. Security for the Internet of Things 16. Privacy 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Understanding provisioning


The major item still left to discuss, before we have an infrastructure where we can control ownership of the information it generates, is provisioning. Provisioning is the means to control who can access your devices, and do what with them.

The IEEE IoT Harmonization working group, which we presented in previous chapters, provides an extension to XMPP for provisioning. (This interface is based on legacy interfaces defined in XEP-0324.) The provisioning extension provides things with decision support in answering three main questions:

  • Am I allowed to accept a presence subscription request from an entity?
  • Am I allowed to be read by an entity, and if so, which data?
  • Am I allowed to be controlled by an entity, and if so, which parameters?

The provisioning extension defines the concept of a provisioning server to which all things can ask the aforementioned questions when necessary. The provisioning server in turn makes sure to ask the owner, when the owner is available,...

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