Re: Building the Web of Things [via Web of Things Community Group]

great post - i send it to the ierc and council list
http://www.internet-of-things-research.eu/about_ierc.htm <http://www.internet-of-things-research.eu/about_ierc.htm>
http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/members

Rob van Kranenburg 罗万魁
Founder of Council;  theinternetofthings.eu
Community Manager; sociotal.eu
Chair of Activity Chain 8 Societal of the IERC; www.internet-of-things-research.eu






> Op 2-jun.-2015, om 14:30 heeft David Janes <davidjanes@davidjanes.com> het volgende geschreven:
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> Just to clarify, _this_ mailing list - "public-web-of-things@w3.org <mailto:public-web-of-things@w3.org>" - is where we're having discussions about this?
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> D.
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> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 7:05 AM, W3C Community Development Team <team-community-process@w3.org <mailto:team-community-process@w3.org>> wrote:
> The Web grew strong on the back of open source and a community of enthusiasts.
> Now, improvements in electronics are fuelling the Internet of Things, and we
> have a limited window of opportunity to create and establish strong open
> standards on a world wide scale for the IoT.
> 
> Right now, the IoT suffers from fragmentation and data silos. Without strong
> open standards, we’re likely to see competing proprietary solutions that
> increase the costs for developers and limit the potential.
> 
> W3C is one of the few organizations that can define global standards to enable
> discovery and interoperability of services on a world wide basis. We want to
> extend the Web from a Web of pages to a Web of Things.
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> The value proposition is enabling lowered development costs and unlocking data
> silos by bridging IoT platforms through the Web at a range of device scales from
> microcontrollers to cloud-based server farms.
> 
> We will do this via a core model of services in terms of metadata, events,
> properties and actions, that is bound to a variety of protocols as no one
> protocol will fulfill all needs. By bindings, we mean how to use the protocols
> to notify events and property updates, and how to invoke actions and return the
> results via REST based messages for each protocol.
> 
> The importance of this core model of services is that it simplifies the
> scripting of services by decoupling the details of the communication protocols.
> The server uses the models to automatically create local objects for scripts to
> interact with in place of having to directly drive the protocols. This makes it
> easier to build highly scalable servers which are free to use the protocols best
> suited to the requirements.
> 
> We would like to achieve this through open source projects for Web of Things
> servers for a number of different device types, and a start has been made with
> an implementation based on NodeJS. This is still at a very early stage, but it
> nonetheless suggests the potential.
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>         https://github.com/w3c/web-of-things-framework <https://github.com/w3c/web-of-things-framework>
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> The initial code uses HTTP to access the descriptions of “things”
> represented in JSON-LD, i.e. the semantics are founded on W3C’s work on Linked
> Data, but expressed with the simplicity of JSON. The messaging is built on top
> of WebSockets.
> 
> The idea is to extend this to support a wider range of protocols, including MQTT
> and XMPP as well as pure HTTP solutions. The roadmap calls for work on
> supporting richer metadata for security, privacy and communication patterns. We
> also are looking for help with work on device drivers, both for direct access,
> e.g. through GPIO ports on the device hosting the server, or through IoT
> technologies such as Bluetooth and ZigBee. We’re also looking for people
> interested in open source development of highly scalable cloud based servers,
> building on the firm foundation of existing projects.
> 
> So if you are willing to help with software development for the Web of Things
> servers, that would be greatly appreciated. In addition, to the NodeJS server,
> we anticipate work on servers for microcontrollers, e.g. building upon existing
> open source projects for CoAP and MQTT. Potential target devices include the
> Arduino and the more powerful ESP8266. Like the Web of pages, we expect that
> developers will want to choose which programming languages they use, e.g.
> JavaScript on NodeJS, Lua on NodeMCU, Python on MicroPython, and C/C++ on the
> Arduino IDE.
> 
> To complement work on the software, we will need help with use cases, design and
> documentation, and with test frameworks and associated test suites. We’re also
> looking for people to apply the web of things to practical IoT projects and to
> share their experiences with the wider community, including helping with
> hackathons. There is a lot of fun to be had by hobbyists thanks to the low cost
> of microcontrollers, sensor, actuators and associated electronic components.
> There are also opportunities for businesses to exploit open standards as they
> emerge, and to avoid being locked into a particular vendor’s platform. A
> strong open source community will stimulate innovation and lower costs through
> shared building blocks and expertise that allows businesses to focus on the
> added value they offer to customers.
> 
> We welcome contributions to the open source projects whether extensions to
> existing server projects or to new ones like the NodeJS server cited above. If
> you find a bug in the source code or a mistake in the documentation, you can
> help us by submitting an issue to the GitHub repository, and likewise if you
> have suggestions for new features. Even better you can submit a Pull Request
> with a fix.
> 
> We encourage you to join the W3C Web of Things Community Group where
> contribution and discussions will happen. Anyone can join and there are no fees.
> The Community Group hosts a publicly archived mailing list, blog and wiki. We
> can also collaborate on documents, e.g. on GitHub. So if you have ideas you want
> present or questions to ask please feel encouraged to do so. Together we can
> build a better Web!
> 
> The Community Group is at: https://www.w3.org/community/wot/ <https://www.w3.org/community/wot/>
> 
> n.b. the Community Group has been quiet to date with most of the activity
> occurring in the associated W3C Interest Group, but I hope to change that as we
> kick start the effort on open source and applications. If you work for a W3C
> Member Organisation, you are also welcome to join the Interest Group.
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> 'Building the Web of Things'
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> https://www.w3.org/community/wot/2015/06/02/building-the-web-of-things/ <https://www.w3.org/community/wot/2015/06/02/building-the-web-of-things/>
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> Learn more about the Web of Things Community Group:
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> https://www.w3.org/community/wot <https://www.w3.org/community/wot>
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