A Car as a Semantic Web Thing: Motivation and Demonstration

Building a Courtyard-environment-monitoring System Based on Internet of Things Architecture

“…(11) The definition of the IoT is very simple: all items are connected through radiofrequency identification and other information-sensing devices in series for intelligent identification and management. The IoT must have the following characteristics: (12) i. Dedicated network architecture…”

From Cloud to Edge: Seamless Software Migration at the Era of the Web of Things

“…Due to the recent appearance of the standard, the literature on W3C WoT is still scarce and limited to few applications and supporting tools. The mapping of real-world IoT devices to W3C WTs have been explored in [16], [17], [18] and [19], respectively for the case of mobile phones, automotive industry and wireless sensor networks. Specifically, in the latter, the authors demonstrate how to deploy WoT-based interoperable sensing applications able to manage heterogeneous sensors equipped with three different wireless access technologies (Wi-Fi, BLE and Zigbee).…”

“…The latter is defined in the W3C standard as a virtual representation of a device or a group of devices that resides on a cloud or edge node (...) they can model a single device, or they can aggregate multiple devices in a virtual representation of the combined devices" [15]. To this purpose, we consider a WoT application for the automotive industry like the one proposed in [17]; a WT is associated to each in-vehicle component in order to enable seamless access and interaction to car signals. Similarly to [17], the Sensor Web Things (SWTs) are in charge of acquiring the data from the hardware of the vehicle.…”

“…To this purpose, we consider a WoT application for the automotive industry like the one proposed in [17]; a WT is associated to each in-vehicle component in order to enable seamless access and interaction to car signals. Similarly to [17], the Sensor Web Things (SWTs) are in charge of acquiring the data from the hardware of the vehicle. In addition, we assume the presence of a Vehicle Web Thing (VWT), defined as the digital twin of the vehicle as a whole; the VWT is the unique point of access to a subset of the SWTs properties/actions/events, but it also exposes new Affordances derived from the processing and fusion of multiple sensor data, e.g.…”

“…The interoperability support is managed at the application level by defining a standard interface for IoT components (physical or virtual), known as the Thing Description (TD) [15], which formally states the Web Things' (WTs) capabilities or affordances. Despite the recent appearance, some interesting applications of the W3C WoT have been proposed so far on different IoT domains [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]. At the same time, the WoT reference implementation [21] does not support mobility of software components among cloud/edge nodes, since the runtime environment of a WT (called Servient in [21]) must be statically deployed on a device.…”