SMARTEEX: a software tool for SMART Environment EXperiments

The emerging demand for smart building systems has significantly stimulated the research on management platforms for sensors and actuators networks. In the last few years, several solutions have been proposed for this kind of networks, spanning from research to commercial systems. As there are no really widespread standards, single devices operate based on proprietary protocols, making interoperability a significant issue. To achieve a thorough understanding of the performance of these systems in field experiments are needed. This paper proposes SMARTEEX, a software tool to test smart building solutions. SMARTEEX is the first proposal that provides a virtual network to test different architectures for smart environments, running experiments with real and/or simulated smart devices. Our performance evaluation demonstrates that using SMARTEEX it is possible to compare for example a cloud-based with a SDN-based architecture.