It is primarily encoded in XML format

It describes the physical location of IoT devices in the network

It is used to access devices using their physical characteristics

It provides a common representation for the metadata and interfaces of Things

It provides high availability for pub/sub topics and real-time data streams.   

It facilitates data replication from the core cloud to the edge.   

It runs machine learning algorithms using Kafka user-defined functions.   

It implements a Lambda architecture for batch and streaming processing of factory sensor data.   

FTP.

CoAP.

HTTP.

MQTT.

Layered architectures and Service-centric architectures

Layered architectures and Thing-centric architectures

Thing-centric architectures and Cloud-centric architectures

Cloud-centric architectures and Edge-centric architectures