The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal

2015, 9 : 1019-1024
Published online 2015 September 10. DOI: 10.2174/1874110X01509011019
Publisher ID: TOCSJ-9-1019

Applying SNMP Technology to Manage the Sensors in Internet of Things

Huang Hui-Ping , Xiao Shi-De and Meng Xiang-Yin
School of Mechanical Engineering, SouthWest JIaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610031, P.R. China.

ABSTRACT

Nowadays, the IoT is largely dependent on sensors. The IoT devices are embedded with sensors and have the ability to communicate. A variety of sensors play a key role in networked devices in IoT. In order to facilitate the management of such sensors, this paper investigates how to use SNMP protocol, which is widely used in network device management, to implement sensors information management of IoT system. The principles and implement details to setup the MIB file, agent and manager application are discussed. A prototype system is setup to validate our methods. The test results show that because of its easy use and strong expansibility, SNMP is suitable and a bright way for sensors information management of IoT system.

Keywords:

Agent, internet of Things, manager, MIB, sensors, SNMP.