- From: Rob van Kranenburg <kranenbu@xs4all.nl>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 14:39:00 +0200
- To: David Janes <davidjanes@davidjanes.com>
- Cc: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>, "public-web-of-things@w3.org" <public-web-of-things@w3.org>
- Message-Id: <7F449C64-6153-4F88-B004-33FE18A30079@xs4all.nl>
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: > > 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? > > D. > > > 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. > > 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. > > https://github.com/w3c/web-of-things-framework <https://github.com/w3c/web-of-things-framework> > > 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. > > > > ---------- > > This post sent on Web of Things Community Group > > > > 'Building the Web of Things' > > 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/> > > > > Learn more about the Web of Things Community Group: > > https://www.w3.org/community/wot <https://www.w3.org/community/wot> > > > >
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