Summary - Y.4503 (08/2024) - Framework of common rule enablement for intelligent Internet of things (IoT) services in heterogeneous IoT platform environments

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings a diverse range of devices to the network, which are managed by rule-enabled IoT platforms that react to events dynamically and automatically. However, the heterogeneity of the IoT networks makes it challenging to deploy consistent rule scenarios across multiple platforms due to differences in protocols and data formats. The IoT rule agent is a platform that implements the framework of common rule enablement. The agent is deployed in the proxy layer to bridge clients and devices in heterogeneous IoT networks. Between different IoT networks, the heterogeneity of the platforms is handled by the agent to deliver the corresponding format of rule profiles to the destination platform through the platform-specific protocol. The agent includes the device proxies to enable the heterogeneous rule profiles to be a common format that is registered through the rule registry for the deployment process. For deploying the rules to the heterogeneous IoT platforms, the device proxies translate the common format to platform-specific style and delivers it to the corresponding platform. Within the agent, each device proxy only considers the corresponding IoT network to perform translation and deployment. Based on the agent, the heterogeneous IoT platforms operates the common rule scenario although heterogeneous rules are delivered to the environment. Recommendation ITU-T Y.4503 specifies a framework of common rule enablement for intelligent IoT services in heterogeneous IoT platform environments.