ABSTRACT
Home and building automation technologies are the target of a rapidly proceeding technology revolution driven by the recent research activities around smart grids, smart cities, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Future trends in building automation also tackle the wide-spanning area of the IoT that was initially characterized by radio-frequency identification (RFID) components and the use of the Electronic Product Code (EPC) to identify physical objects. In the future, home and building automation systems will be used in novel application areas that require the interconnection of heterogeneous infrastructures and information systems. There are several technologies and protocols that are relevant for the future IoT that will interconnect billions of devices equipped with embedded intelligence or so-called smart objects. ZigBee IP (ZIP) is an upcoming technology in the context of Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSAN). Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) for sensor networks (MQTT-S) specifies optimizations that allow to use the MQTT protocol within sensor networks.
