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M. Jung, J. Weidinger, D. Bunyai, C. Reinisch, W. Kastner, A. Olivieri:
"Demonstration of an IPv6 multi-protocol gateway for seamless integration of Building Automation Systems into Constrained RESTful Environments";
Poster: 2012 International Conference on the Internet of Things, Wuxi, China; 2012-10-24 - 2012-10-26; in: "Proceedings of 2012 International Conference on the Internet of Things", IEEE Press, (2012), ISBN: 978-1-4673-1346-9; 211 - 212.

Millions of existing smart devices are already deployed in home and building automation covering domains
of lighting, heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC),
security, safety, and smart metering. From an Internet of Things
point of view, these devices are legacy devices based on technologies like BACnet, ZigBee or KNX which mostly use nonIP communication technologies and IP almost exclusively to
tunnel their speci?c network protocols. For native IoT devices
recent research work is focusing on IPv6 communication stacks
using RESTful Web services for direct device interaction. In
order to use such a communication stack in embedded devices,
protocols for Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) have
been standardized having the Constrained Application Protocol
(CoAP) as main message exchange protocol. This paper presents
a transparent IPv6 multi-protocol gateway that allows a seamless
integration of existing Building Automation Systems into the
Internet of Things. The gateway provides a CoRE conformant
interface for each legacy device and hence has the potential to
populate the Internet of Things with millions of real world devices
at one go.

Internet of Things, IPv6, Building Automation, Multi-protocol integration, Web services

Project Head Wolfgang Kastner:
Universal Integration of the Internet of Things through an IPv6-based Service Oriented Architecture enabling heterogeneous components interoperability