Towards an IoT Model for the Assessment of Smart Devices

The current Internet of Things (IoT) market proposes a wide variety of devices with complex design and different functionality. In addition, the same IoT device can be used in different domains, from home to industry, to healthcare. The management of such devices occurs in different ways, for example through visual interaction using high level programming languages (e.g. Event-Condition-Action rules) or through high level API. Generally, end users are not technical experts and are not able to configure their IoT devices, thus they need external tools (or visual interaction paradigm) to exploit and better control them. In this work, we present a model for IoT devices which allows to assess those devices and their suitability for a certain domain according to four dimensions: communication, target, data manipulation and development. The model aims at better understanding the device capabilities and, consequently, facilitating the choice of the devices that better suit the domain in which they should be used.