A Proof-of-Concept for Semantically Interoperable Federation of IoT Experimentation Facilities

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is unanimously identified as one of the main pillars of future smart scenarios. The potential of IoT technologies and deployments has been already demonstrated in a number of different application areas, including transport, energy, safety and healthcare. However, despit...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2016-06, Vol.16 (7), p.1006-1006
Main Authors: Lanza, Jorge, Sanchez, Luis, Gomez, David, Elsaleh, Tarek, Steinke, Ronald, Cirillo, Flavio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Boundaries
Data transmission
Digital media
Experimentation
federation
Internet of Things
Interoperability
Mathematical models
ontology
Platforms
proof-of-concept
semantic
Semantics
Silos
testbed
Weight reduction
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Summary:The Internet-of-Things (IoT) is unanimously identified as one of the main pillars of future smart scenarios. The potential of IoT technologies and deployments has been already demonstrated in a number of different application areas, including transport, energy, safety and healthcare. However, despite the growing number of IoT deployments, the majority of IoT applications tend to be self-contained, thereby forming application silos. A lightweight data centric integration and combination of these silos presents several challenges that still need to be addressed. Indeed, the ability to combine and synthesize data streams and services from diverse IoT platforms and testbeds, holds the promise to increase the potentiality of smart applications in terms of size, scope and targeted business context. In this article, a proof-of-concept implementation that federates two different IoT experimentation facilities by means of semantic-based technologies will be described. The specification and design of the implemented system and information models will be described together with the practical details of the developments carried out and its integration with the existing IoT platforms supporting the aforementioned testbeds. Overall, the system described in this paper demonstrates that it is possible to open new horizons in the development of IoT applications and experiments at a global scale, that transcend the (silo) boundaries of individual deployments, based on the semantic interconnection and interoperability of diverse IoT platforms and testbeds.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s16071006