Re: Scope of the Web of Things

Le lundi 16 septembre 2013 à 12:27 +0100, Dave Raggett a écrit :
> > * 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
> 
> Your definition is in my opinion too narrow.

(note that I didn't mean these to be "one definition", but several of
them, and I didn't mean to make them mine as much as to report what
definitions I've heard)

>   For me the Web of Things 
> is more about the application of Web technologies to the creation of 
> services for things including sensors, actuators, people and "dumb" 
> objects such as a bottle of wine which has a virtual presence on the Web 
> as a basis for information about the physical object, e.g. the vineyard, 
> the vintage, the kind of grapes, etc. Such information could be specific 
> to the object rather than the kind of object it is.

That seems to match what I put (or at least what I intended to put)
under my third bullet.

Dom

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