Connectivity service level orchestrator and arbitrator in internet of things (iot) platforms

A system comprising:

• a plurality of interfaces to communicate a plurality of data flows with a plurality of wireless devices using multiple protocols;
• a connectivity manager (CM) to monitor one or more interfaces of the plurality of interfaces, activate a first interface upon detecting a demand to exchange data thereon, and power down a second interface upon passage of a threshold amount of idle time;
• a packet analyzer to extract packet metadata and to determine latency encountered and bandwidth utilized by one or more of the plurality of data flows;
• an adaptive connectivity manager (ACM) to apply a latency reduction strategy to try to conform the latency encountered to latency criteria;
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• a bandwidth utilization manager (BUM) to apply a bandwidth reduction strategy to attempt to conform the bandwidth utilized to bandwidth criteria.

An Internet of Things (IoT) community comprising:

• a plurality of IoT functional entities to communicate a plurality of data flows using one or more wireless protocols over one or more interfaces, each of the IoT functional entities being a party to a service level agreement (SLA) that specifies at least one of bandwidth criteria and latency criteria;
• a connectivity manager (CM) to monitor one or more of the one or more interfaces, activate a first interface upon detecting a demand to exchange data thereon, and power down a second interface upon passage of a threshold amount of idle time;
• a packet analyzer (PA) to extract packet metadata and to determine latency encountered and bandwidth utilized by one or more data flows of the plurality of data flows;
• an adaptive connectivity manager (ACM) to apply a latency reduction strategy to attempt to conform the latency encountered to the latency criteria;
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• a bandwidth utilization manager (BUM) to apply a bandwidth reduction strategy to attempt to conform the bandwidth utilized to the bandwidth criteria.