RE: Scope of the Web of Things

In ITU-T Y.2063 [1] , WoT defined as below:

“Although the WoT has a similar viewpoint to the IoT, the WoT is intended so that physical devices
can be accessed as resources of the web and services/applications can be provided based upon a
web-based service environment as well as legacy telecommunications.”

…

The WoT can provide capabilities of device reusability, portability across several heterogeneous networks and accessibility based on web
with web standards.

In the general concept of WoT, The physical devices are mapping the services into
the web and those are considered as web resources so that service developers and/or service
providers can easily create web applications for the physical devices”

Best Regards,

[1] http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-Y.2063-201207-I


From: Konstantinos Kotis [mailto:kotis@aegean.gr]
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 7:47 PM
To: Dominique Hazael-Massieux; public-wot@w3.org
Subject: ΑΠ: Scope of the Web of Things

This is my understanding also, at least so far.

BR,

Kostas
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Από: Dominique Hazael-Massieux<mailto:dom@w3.org>
Στάλθηκε: ‎16/‎9/‎2013 12:28 μμ
Προς: public-wot@w3.org<mailto:public-wot@w3.org>
Θέμα: 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