The Internet of Things in a Laptop: Rapid Prototyping for IoT Applications with Digibox

Abstract

Digibox is a prototyping environment for IoT applications. It enables a novel scene-centric prototyping where developers can program an ensemble of simulated devices to capture not only their individual but also their coordinated behaviors, making it possible to test, debug, and evaluate the behaviors of an IoT application. Using Digibox, developers can download and reuse existing scenes, customize, and repurpose them towards developing new applications; or replicate others' experiment results from scientific research. Digibox's Kubernetes-based runtime further allows developers to easily scale the prototyping environment from a single laptop to a cluster running simulated devices and scenes at a scale appropriate to the application.