ROOF is a federated networking and computational paradigm for solving interoperability, usability, scalability, and security issues facing IoT deployments. It addresses the challenges of huge numbers of applications, devices, and connections. Security and privacy are key challenges that must be addressed for real IoT deployments to grow successfully. ROOF also aims to provide solutions for the highly changing demands on IoT deployments while accommodating the constraints of devices in terms of resources, power, and connectivity.

1. ROOF (Realtime Onsite Operations
Facilitation)A federated networking and computational paradigm for the Internet of Things (IoT) which
solves some of the pressing problems of “next-hop connectivity” of IoT deployments
today: Interoperability, Usability, Scalability and Security for the constrained IoT devices.
Big Scale: The scale of applications, devices, connections are getting huge in numbers. The complexities of interfacing,
interoperability, and heterogeneity are getting out of hands of implementers, integrators, and policy makers.
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Big Impact: Security and Privacy are key challenges for many real deployments of IoT. Unless we address this, the
versatility and popularity of the system cannot grow and can hinder successful deployment.
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Big Change: The demand for different use cases and options require highly changing demands on the IoT deployments.
At the same time, the devices are highly constrained in terms of resources, power, and connectivity.
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Get in
touch with
us
Nishant Krishna
(nishant.krishna@gmail.com)
Syam Madanapalli
(smadanapalli@gmail.com)
Ambika P (ambika.p@kristujayanti.com)
ROOF Distribution List (stds-p1931-
1@ieee.org)
Our Website https://standards.ieee.org/project/1931_1.html
What does ROOF (IEEE P1931.1) offer for the use cases in the
context of IoT?
Interoperability
in multi-vendor
environments
Security,
privacy,
protection, and
safety by
default
Context-aware
computations
and local
survivability
Autonomous
real-time
decision
making
Federated-
architecture
based
scalability and
resilience
Integration
with complex
systems using
Open IoT APIs
Key Challenges in the IoT World
Everyone part of IoT ecosystem should participate
Device
Manufacturers
Solution
Providers
Service
Providers
Utilities Governments ICTs
Infrastructure
Providers
ISPs Academia Policy Makers
IoT Startups &
Entrepreneurs
IoT Enthusiasts
Constrained
Devices
Big Scale
Tech
Illiterates
Lack of UI, challenging
to design & configure,
and prone to errors
Applications & devices
are personal, and involve
humans & physical world
Variety of devices,
protocols, &
applications
Big Impact
Safety & economic risks,
loss of privacy and
business interruptions
Big Change
The Constrained Devices
Limited Power
Limited Bandwidth
Limited Computing
Cannot protect
themselves
Vulnerable to
DoSattacks