Energy-Efficient Mobile Data Acquisition Using Opportunistic Internet of Things Gateway Services

Abstract

The near future Internet of Things (IoT) allows devices to discover and to establish cooperation autonomously in an opportunistic manner. While the incentive service is available, the front-end inter-organisational devices may help each other not only on sharing information, but they can also share their Internet connection towards saving energy. Considering that different devices may have been configured from different online/offline time periods, selecting a proper collaborator becomes an important requirement. In this paper, we propose a framework for proactive scheduling the Internet gateway services in the collaborative mobile IoT environment. The proposed framework and the scheduling scheme has been implemented and tested on the real devices. The results show that the proposed framework can effectively save energy for the IoT devices.