A user-oriented resource management model for the internet of things

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), vast amounts of heterogeneous resources have been connected to the network. How to effectively manage these resources will become a critical issue. This paper first summarizes the current status of the resource management in different scenarios, like WSN, RFID, and RSN. Then from a user perspective, based on the resource name service, we propose a generic resource management model, which is composed of users, devices and resources. Two actual cases are introduced to describe how users can obtain the logical information and control the entity object through this theoretical model. Finally, the analysis shows that this model can meet the needs of ordinary users in compatibility, stability, real-time and flexibility for IoT resources management. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.