DAQ is a framework designed to test and operate IoT devices in an enterprise IoT environment. Nominally about device testing and qualification, Device Automated Qualification (DAQ), provides a means to automate many capabilities, resulting in a more manageable, robust, and secure platform.

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There are several main categories of capabilities that DAQ addresses:

• Device automated qualification and testing: Testing the behavior of a device against established security and network standards. More details about the goals and objectives behind this can be found in the IEEE Computer article Taming the IoT: Operationalized Testing to Secure Connected Devices.
• Network security orchestration: Use standard SDN capabilities, such as the FAUCET OpenFlow controller, to orchestrate "microsegmentation" on the network for improved security.
• Universal Device Management Interface (UDMI): An interface specification designed to normalize the management of IoT devices from different manufacturers. This is a simple standard that provides for many of the common features not present in existing protocols (e.g. BACnet).
• Device Management Tools: A suite of tools, consoles, and dashboards that help operate a robust ecosystem of IoT devices. (Details forthcoming.)

Most aspects of DAQ assume a baseline setup consisting of:

• Linux install: DAQ has been tested against both Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS bionic and Debian GNU/Linux 9.4 stretch, YMMV with other platforms.
• Dedicated network adapters: At the very minimum one dedicated ethernet adapter is required. This could either be a separate built-in NIC, or a USB-Ethernet dongle.
• (Optional) OpenFlow-compatible hardware switch, described in the Network Topologies overview.

The top-level DAQ folders correspond to the following structure:

• bin/: System setup and management commands.
• build/: Dynamically created directory for build logs.
• cmd/: Primary commands for running DAQ testing.
• daq/: Python source for DAQ runtime.
• docker/: Docker build files for DAQ components and tests.
• docs/: Documentation.
• faucet/: Dynamically downloaded version of SDN controller.
• firebase/: Hosted pages and functions for web dashboard.
• functions/: Additional Cloud Functions for data processing.
• inst/: Install directory for specific runtime contents.
• local/: Local setup and config information.
• mininet/: Local version of the mininet virtual network host framework.
• misc/: Miscellaneous support files.
• mudacl/: Utilities for managing and testing MUD network files.
• mud_files/: Examples and prototype device MUD files.
• out/: Misc transitory output files.
• pubber/: Sample code for generating cloud-ingest traffic.
• schemas/: Device/cloud data exchange schemas.
• subset/: Subsets of device tests (e.g. penetration tests).
• testing/: Scripts for system continuous integration testing.
• topology/: Network topology setups.
• validator/: Tools for validating data exchange schemas.
• venv/: Dynamically downloaded python virtual environment files.

Items in italics can generally be deleted without any loss of functionality (dynamically created at install/runtime). The local subdirectory contains local setup information that is not part of the source distribution.