The Internet of Things (IoT) vision foresees billions of devices seamlessly integrated into information systems. In this context, the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) has been defined as a technology enabler to allow applications to interact with physical objects. In this work we present CoAPthon, an open-source Python-based CoAP library, which aims at simplifying the development of CoAP-enabled IoT applications. The library offers software developers a simple and easy-to-use programming interface to exploit CoAP as a communication protocol for rapid prototyping and deployment of IoT systems. The CoAPthon library is fully compliant with the CoAP RFC and implements in addition popular extensions such as the block-wise transfer and resource observing.
['Giacomo Tanganelli', 'Carlo Vallati', 'Enzo Mingozzi']
CoAPthon: Easy development of CoAP-based IoT applications with Python