1. Thing as a Service Interoperability: Review and Framework Proposal
- Author
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Neven Vrček, Darko Andročec, and Younas Muhammad, Awan Irfan, Seah Winston
- Subjects
Service (systems architecture) ,Computer science ,business.industry ,020208 electrical & electronic engineering ,Interoperability ,020206 networking & telecommunications ,Cloud computing ,02 engineering and technology ,Internet of things ,interoperability ,semantic thing ,thing as a service ,Semantic interoperability ,World Wide Web ,Service level ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Language interoperability ,Cross-domain interoperability ,Communications protocol ,business - Abstract
Internet of things (IoT) is global network of interconnected entities aimed at automating our lives. However, a number of IoT devices and systems have been created in parallel and there is no universal coding language and communication protocol. For this reason, IoT interoperability is a complex research and practical problem. In this work, we review existing work about IoT interoperability and IoT ontologies. Next, we propose a framework for things as a service interoperability that includes composition of different sensors and actuators at service level, and their integration with existing cloud services. The proposed framework consists of four main layers: virtual sensor, service, semantic, and interoperability layer. We plan to use the proposed framework to achieve service-level interoperability of smart things that will be semantically annotated in order to describe their functional and non-functional properties (with special emphasis on security and privacy).
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- 2016