The recent developments of the new generation of the Sensor Web Enablement specification framework are illustrated and related to other emerging concepts such as the Web of Things and point out challenges and resulting future work topics for research on Sensor Web enablement.
An approach will be presented that was developed within the EU funded project “OSIRIS” that offers mechanisms to search for sensors, exploit basic semantic relationships, harvest sensor metadata and integrate sensor discovery into already existing catalogues.
The BIG IoT (Bridging the Interoperability Gap of the IoT) project aims to ignite an IoT ecosystem as part of the European Platforms Initiative and employs five interoperability patterns that enable cross-platform interoperability and can help establish successful IoT ecosystems.
A Sensor Plug & Play infrastructure for the Sensor Web is introduced by combining semantic matchmaking functionality, a publish/subscribe mechanism underlying the SensorWeb, as well as a model for the declarative description of sensor interfaces which serves as a generic driver mechanism.
Instead of developing new semantically enabled services from scratch, this work proposes to create profiles of existing services that implement a transparent mapping between the OGC and the Semantic Web world, and points out how to combine SDI with linked data.
This chapter aims to be an overview of the IoRT concept, technologies, architectures and applications and to provide a comprehensive coverage of trends and future challenges, developments and applications.
This work introduces the SenseBox, a small computing device equipped with different sensors to perceive its environment and with a Web server and an according REST API which makes it available as a first class citizen on the Web.
The generic BIG IoT API is presented that employs a novel approach for self-description and semantic annotation to fully adapt arbitrary IoT platforms to enable interoperable interaction with those platforms.
A lightweight profile for the OGC Sensor Observation Service is provided that ensures the necessary interoperability for seamlessly integrating the environmental data provided by the EEA's member states and thus forms the foundation for the developed data exchange mechanisms.
The BIG IoT architecture is presented as the foundation to establish IoT ecosystems and fulfills essential requirements that have been assessed among industry and research organizations as part of the BIG IoT project.