Management of IoT devices in home network via intelligent home gateway using NETCONF

Internet of things (IoT) is surrounded by heterogeneous entities such as sensors, mobile devices and actuators in a constrained environment which are running on very low power and lossy networks. These entities are also of very small memory and can handle small computational overhead. To this end, complete IoT system and different devices which are working in home network management system will be presented in this paper. Applications for home network are considered under different architectures and their designs are discussed. Conventional simple network management protocol (SNMP) is generally applied for network management but it is not optimal due to lack of flexibility in configuring devices and lack of capabilities in managing operations in an IoT network. A design of smart washing machine device using the IoT design methodology is being discussed using network configuration protocol (NETCONF) and yet another next generation (YANG) datamodeling language to illustrate how it would be a better alternative for managing home network. © 2018, ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.