Providing Interoperability for Autonomic Control of Connected Devices

Abstract

Abstract. In the IoT, data is exchanged and used by heterogeneous devices in machine-to-machine communications. Managing complex systems is at the core of autonomic computing and a key topic in the IoT. Therefore, interoperability is a central issue, at both the syntactic and the semantic level. To tackle syntactic and architectural interoperability, standards allow systems to connect and exchange structured data. However, for data to be used, semantic interoperability must be ensured to provide meaning and consistency. In this paper we provide syntactic and semantic interoperability solutions in a home automation autonomic system.

Capturing the contributions of the semantic web to the IoT: a unifying vision

“…Unfortunately, the paper does not give any additional precision to describe its enrichment approach. In a different approach, enrichment to a semantic format is performed in [6] and [18] on the UN side when data is collected from the MN. Content collected from sensors is stored in a standardized structure on the gateway, but it is explicitly described with an ontology only on the server side.…”

“…This approach allows the same node to have different behaviours upon the reception on the command, if the rule head relies on agents contextual knowledge. In [18] and [6], a representation of the actions to be taken is inferred from the representation of the user requirements and from the observations of the environment. These actions are associated to service description that are processed by a remote node to actually make the service calls.…”

“…However, it is worth noting that some contributions are only partially situated in LMU-N because the papers describing these contributions do not provide enough implementation details. This either reveals that [4], [40], [63] M U [20], [6], [18] Upstream Unspecified [29], [32], [64], [54], [33], [12], [22], [65] [42], [54], [33] U M…”

“…Furthermore, such customization of one's IoT network requires devices to be able to understand each other: they must be semantically interoperable. [5] and [6] make a distinction between syntactic interoperability, or the ability for systems to exchange content, and semantic interoperability, the ability to understand the exchanged messages. The extreme technological diversity [7], as well as the multiplicity of standards (including but not limited to oneM2M 4 , OIC 5 , AllJoyn 6 , LWM2M 7 ), makes syntactic interoperability at a large scale a nontrivial issue.…”

Autonomic Management Approach for Dynamic Service Based IoT Systems

“…The integration of those complex and high level services along with elementary services provided by the connected devices to build complex smarter systems is still challenging. The cooperation and interoperability between things and services become a key point to increase and to improve the individual value they provide [1], [2]. Many application domains may be impacted by the development of those smart systems [3]: in the context of smart city, it enables the automatic management of the system with several considerations, such as energy consumption optimization or diverse metrics monitoring.…”