Sunflower: a proposal for standardization for Internet of Musical Things environments.
Internet of Musical Things, Environment design, Protocol definition, Pipes-and-Filters, Sunflower, Network Music Performance.
The Internet of Musical Things is an area of knowledge positioned between the Internet of Things, new interfaces for musical expression, ubiquitous music, artificial intelligence, participatory art, and human-computer interaction. It aims to improve the relationship between musicians and their peers, as well as that of musicians and audience members, favoring concerts, studio productions, and music learning. Although emerging, this field is already facing some challenges, such as social, economic, and environmental ones that result from the insertion of a new type of technology in society, in addition to the instigations caused by artistic and pedagogical practices. From a computational point of view, the adversities fall on the lack of privacy and security, and mainly, on the lack of standardization and interoperability between its devices. Therefore, this thesis presents the design of the Sunflower environment, highlighting its structure divided into layers and operating mode similar to the Pipes-and-Filters architecture, in addition to the protocols and sound characteristics that can contribute to solving the most recurrent problems in this area. For technical validation, tests were performed on localhost, wired twisted pair connection, and wireless connection via Wi-Fi. Finally, a comparative analysis is performed with three other existing models, in order to draw conclusions about which behaviors and protocols are recurrent in this area, besides indicating particularities that can help developers to create their scenarios.