Security News > 2020 > December > Researchers develop tool that automates device programming in the IoT

ICREA research professor Jordi Cabot and researcher Abel Gómez, two members of the Systems, Software and Models Research Lab at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, in collaboration with the IKERLAN technology research centre, have designed an innovative new tool for automating and streamlining the creation of systems that employ asynchronous event-driven communication, one of the most widely used computer architectures in this sector.

Abel Gómez said: "Much of the work that goes into implementing a program for an IoT device involves creating messages in the format that subscribers to the channel expect and also"translating" messages from other devices in order to process the information.

"The researcher continued:"By adopting this new tool, we can significantly shorten the amount of time needed to develop and launch programs, which favours interoperability, improves code quality and in turn limits the number of errors in the software development life cycle.

Above all, the project aims to integrate time series calculations such as these into a model, i.e. a representation of a certain computer system which automates the whole process and removes the need to code its functions repeatedly for different cases.

According to the researchers, this proposal is beneficial in that it would make it possible to automate the programming process and circumvent the risk of potential coding errors, since the model would specify all the information necessary for it to run properly.

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