Workshop on the Web of Things (original) (raw)

The workshop is free, although you will need to submit an brief expression of interest or a longer position paper. See How to participate.

Introduction

It is common to think about the Internet of Things from the perspective of sensors and transport protocols, but you can also think about it from the point of view of services, which is where most of the money is expected to be made:

This of course will depend on open standards to get us out of the current fragmentation where companies are working in isolated silos:

Web technologies are expected to be very important, e.g. JavaScript and open standards for data formats, interface definitions, access control and so forth:

Continuing advances in electronics have dramatically reduced the cost for devices functioning as tags, sensors and actuators for the physical environment, i.e. the Internet of Things (IoT). The market potential for the IoT is currently held back by fragmentation due to a plethora of communication technologies and the lack of a common approach to enabling services.

This workshop will examine the potential for open standards as a basis for services, either between devices, at the network edge, e.g. in home hubs, or in the cloud. It will discuss the use of web protocols and scripting languages for implementing services, the need for APIs for implementing drivers for specific IoT technologies, a shared approach to describing services as a basis for interoperability, and the underlying use of HTTP/COAP, Web Sockets, and EXI/JSON for RESTful services.

Web of Things domains

There is a very wide range of application domains, and the following is just a sample:

The Web of Things is expected to have broad and sweeping economic and societal impact. Open standards will be critical to enabling exponential growth of the kind we experienced with the early days of the Web, that saw it growing from a handful of enthusiasts in the early nineties to a global phenomenon in just a few years.

Workshop Topics

Core Technologies

Domain Challenges

From Things to the Web of Things

The Role of Semantics

Security, Trust and Privacy

User Interfaces

Scalability

Open Markets

bridging service based upon JavaScript, JSON and JSON-LD
Illustration of services based upon JavaScript, JSON and JSON-LD.

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