Our paper Actinium: A RESTful Runtime Container for Scriptable Internet of 
Things Applications presents an architecture to make programming of Internet 
of Things applications significantly easier. Traditional programming models, 
stemming from networked embedded systems and wireless sensor network research, 
require developers to be knowledgeable in various technical domains, from 
low-power networking, over embedded operating systems, to distributed 
algorithms. With Actinium, we bring Web-like scripting to wireless sensor and 
actuator nodes and comparable resource-constrained devices. Applications are 
split into two components: Thin servers that provide the hardware 
functionality of IoT devices through a low-level RESTful interface and 
scripted apps that implement the application logic and run in the Cloud. Using 
our Actinium (Ac) app-server, Erbium (Er) REST engine for Contiki, Californium 
(Cf) CoAP framework, and Copper (Cu) CoAP user-agent, we demonstrate how to 
create IoT application by simply mashing up devices, modular apps, and other 
RESTful Web services. All these building blocks are also publicly available.