TY - CHAP A1 - Schuster, Daniel A1 - Grubitzsch, Philipp A1 - Renzel, Dominik A1 - Klauck, Ronny A1 - Kirsche, Michael T1 - Global-scale Federated Access to Smart Objects Using XMPP T2 - 2014 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2014), and IEEE green computing and communications (GreenCom 2014) and IEEE cyber, physical and social computing (CPSCom 2014), Taipei, Taiwan, 1 - 3 September 2014 N2 - Communication with smart objects currently only works in isolated, sometimes even proprietary islands. This lack of interoperability limits the value of smart objects connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). We propose to use the eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) to connect IoT islands. XMPP is inherently federated, secure, globally scalable and designed for collaboration. We use XMPP Multi-User Chat (MUC) to build a secure and accessible platform for sensor data exchange between organizations. We demonstrate a scenario of three distributed and interconnected XMPP-driven sites, whereas different client types access sensor data from all sites. Our evaluation results confirm that the architectural pattern presented in this work can easily be used in any XMPP-based system without the need to enhance or to extend the standards. Y1 - 2014 UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7059660 SN - 978-1-4799-5967-9 SP - 185 EP - 192 PB - IEEE CY - Piscataway, NJ ER -