Scope of the Web of Things

Hi,

Although the phrase "Web of Things" is still far from being as popular
as "Internet of Things", I feel that it is already being used to refer
to several distinct concepts; I'm sending what I've heard so far here,
to see if this matches what others have heard, hopefully to hear what
others have heard differently, and possibly to converge on a more
reduced set of meanings, possibly completed with other terminology for
the other concepts.

* Web of Things as a subset of Internet of Things: the Web of Things
would be limited to the Things that speak Web, i.e. use HTTP over TCP/IP
and expose Web formats (e.g. JSON, or XML, or HTML)

* a subset of the above: the Web of Things would be limited to Things
that speak Web through RESTful interfaces (incl. the HATEOAS principles)

* Web of Things as a particular approach to the Internet of Things:
bringing a set of higher level interfaces to provide a more uniform
development platform

* Reaching to the Internet of Things via a Web browser

Dom

Received on Monday, 16 September 2013 09:28:23 UTC