Service Mashups and Developer Support

Physical mobility in major cities has become an ostentatious issue and connected mobility, an application of Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies has been readily propounded to soothe the situation. The context of connected mobility, where applications generally have to be designed on an adhoc basis to meet the user requirements, has gradually shifted the art of programming from the realms of professional software developers to third party application developers(End-Developers) or possibly even novice end users. The concepts of web mashups can be leveraged here to create IoT applications. This paper discusses the concept of web mashups in details and the tool-kits which provide support for IoT application development. The domain of mashups is interesting but the challenges involved with mashup development in an IoT scenario are quite heavy. The developmental strategies followed by the tool-kits can be classified into either mashup based or model-based. The functionality of these tool-kits have been described in great detail to represent the current state-of-art in the context of IoT application development. These tool-kits have been compared with respect to one another, followed by a discussion on their strengths and weakness. The existing weaknesses signify the open research challenges.