Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC); Sensor-sharing API

Abstract

This Work Item introduces a new set of APIs that is devoted to the provision of network-connected sensors’ information and data to MEC applications. The target of these MEC APIs is to ease the MEC applications in collecting data from network-connected sensors. The MEC sensor-sharing APIs provide information about the available sensor types, including details about the types and the related features, and they inform the MEC applications how to connect to the sensors. Furthermore, they can forward data to MEC applications using hardware-independent data formats and interfaces. The information that can be shared, the procedures for requesting the information, and the data will be defined together with the response methods. The information flows, the interfaces, the data model and the format will be detailed as well.