- From: Amy van der Hiel <amy@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2020 10:00:38 -0400
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Dear friends of W3C,
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced today that Web of Things (WoT) Architecture and Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description (TD) are now official W3C Recommendations, thus enabling easy integration across Internet of Things platforms and applications
With the diversity of technologies used in Internet of Things (IoT), such as protocols and data models, information technology users are increasingly facing high integration and maintenance costs in IoT projects as well as the need to avoid isolated silos that often leave them stuck with obsolete software and falling behind in innovation. The W3C Web of Things keeps the promise to counter the fragmentation of the Internet of Things by defining a Web-based abstraction layer for existing platforms, devices, gateways and services. By complementing existing standards, it enhances interoperability thereby reducing the risk for investors and customers. This will also enable the rapid growth of open markets for devices and services.
Please see the press release at:https://www.w3.org/2020/04/pressrelease-wot-rec.html.en and as text below.
Please contact me to learn more or to schedule an interview.
Thank you.
best,
Amy van der Hiel
W3C Media Relations Coordinator
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[1]W3C For immediate release
[1] https://www.w3.org/
Solution for IoT Interoperability - W3C Web of Things (WoT)
Web technologies enable the full potential of the Internet of Things by
interconnecting platforms, devices, and cloud services
Read [2]testimonials from W3C Members
[3]Translations | [4]W3C Press Release Archive
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[3] https://www.w3.org/Press/Releases-2020#wot-rec
[4] https://www.w3.org/Press/
[5]Applications of the Web of Things (WoT) Architecture
[5] http://w3c.github.io/wot-architecture/images/architecture/overview.png
[6]https://www.w3.org/ — 9 April 2020 — The World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) announced today that [7]Web of Things (WoT)
Architecture and [8]Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description (TD)
are now official W3C Recommendations, thus enabling easy
integration across Internet of Things platforms and
applications.
[6] https://www.w3.org/
[7] https://www.w3.org/TR/wot-architecture/
[8] https://www.w3.org/TR/wot-thing-description/
"Many Internet of Things applications have been developed for
areas as diverse as Smart factory, Smart city, Smart home and
public health", said W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe. "By standardizing the
web level descriptions of Things, we intend to promote
interoperability in these important areas."
Keeping the promise to enhance interoperability and counter
fragmentation in IoT
With the diversity of technologies used in Internet of Things
(IoT), such as protocols and data models, information
technology users are increasingly facing high integration and
maintenance costs in IoT projects as well as the need to avoid
isolated silos that often leave them stuck with obsolete
software and falling behind in innovation. [9]The W3C Web of
Things keeps the promise to counter the fragmentation of the
Internet of Things by defining a Web-based abstraction layer
for existing platforms, devices, gateways and services. By
complementing existing standards, it enhances interoperability
thereby reducing the risk for investors and customers. This
will also enable the rapid growth of open markets for devices
and services.
[9] https://www.w3.org/WoT/
These solutions are already deployed in products today
The Web of Things is applicable to multiple IoT domains,
including Smart Home, Industrial, Smart City, Retail, and
Health applications, where usage of the W3C WoT standards can
simplify the development of IoT systems that combine devices
from multiple vendors and ecosystems.
One of the key components of how the W3C membership builds
standards is by implementing the standards as they are being
built. This has resulted in the WoT Technologies being
available today in a number of solutions from our Members and
others in the technology industry.
* Siemens Desigo CC, their flagship Building Management
Station uses WoT to help easily integrate datapoints and
functions from different IoT systems into the Desigo CC
management station and from there to cloud systems;
* The Eclipse Thingweb node-wot is a reference implementation
(in Node.js) of the WoT standards and used as baseline for
many other implementations and WoT-based projects
(including proof of concept projects for Smart Cities and
Retail);
* Node-RED, the well-known low-code development tool from the
OpenJS Foundation, supports the WoT Thing Description as
part of the Node Generator project to simplify the
development of Node-RED nodes, which started as a
contribution by Hitachi as part of their W3C WoT
participation;
* Mozilla WebThings is an open platform based on WoT to
develop privacy and security based smart home applications;
* Further WoT runtime implementations are WoTPy (in Python)
and SANE Web of Things Servient (in Java).
Our Members tell their own stories the best in the
[10]testimonials below.
What does the future hold?
Two baseline specifications have been developed since the
[11]launch of the Web of Things Working Group to define an
abstract architecture, a common data format for describing IoT
devices and services, and several building blocks that increase
interoperability for IoT applications and reduce integration
efforts and costs:
https://www.w3.org/2017/02/media-advisory-wot-wg.html.en
* The [12]WoT Architecture describes the overall Web of
Things conceptual framework.
https://www.w3.org/TR/wot-architecture/
* The [13]WoT Thing Description is to the Internet of Things
what index.html is to a website: it can be considered as
the entry point of a physical or virtual Thing/device.
[13] https://www.w3.org/TR/wot-thing-description/
The work is far from over! W3C having recently renewed the
[14]WoT Working Group charter for the second generation of Web
of Things, is continuing to expand the scope and depth of the
work in this area. By example, the group plans to cover
minimum-effort onboarding of Things in a secure way;
interoperability profiles for support of particular usage
contexts and specific technologies; vocabulary support for new
protocols and additional standard metadata such as location or
device manufacturer; security schemes to support constantly
evolving security mechanisms such as flows in OAuth2, support
for PoP Tokens, support for ACE among others; links relation
type specification to maximize interoperability; standardized
discovery mechanisms so that devices self-describe directly
rather than depending on a centralized infrastructure; and
improvements to Thing Description Templates.
[14] https://www.w3.org/2020/01/wot-wg-charter.html
About the World Wide Web Consortium
The mission of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is to lead
the Web to its full potential by creating technical standards
and guidelines to ensure that the Web remains open, accessible,
and interoperable for everyone around the globe. W3C well-known
standards HTML and CSS are the foundational technologies upon
which websites are built. W3C works on ensuring that all
foundational Web technologies meet the needs of civil society,
in areas such as accessibility, internationalization, security,
and privacy. W3C also provides the standards that undergird the
infrastructure for modern businesses leveraging the Web, in
areas such as entertainment, communications, digital
publishing, and financial services. That work is created in the
open, provided for free and under the groundbreaking W3C Patent
Policy. For its work to make online videos more accessible with
captions and subtitles, W3C received a 2016 Emmy Award. And for
its work to standardize a Full TV Experience on the Web, W3C
received a 2019 Emmy Award.
W3C's vision for "One Web" brings together thousands of
dedicated technologists representing more than 400 [15]Member
organizations and dozens of industry sectors. W3C is jointly
hosted by the [16]MIT Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the United States, the
[17]European Research Consortium for Informatics and
Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France, [18]Keio
University in Japan and [19]Beihang University in China. For
more information see [20]https://www.w3.org/.
[15] https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
[16] https://www.csail.mit.edu/
[17] https://www.ercim.eu/
[18] https://www.keio.ac.jp/
[19] http://ev.buaa.edu.cn/
[20] https://www.w3.org/
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Media Contact
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Testimonials from W3C members
[22]Conexxus • [23]Fujitsu • [24]Hitachi • [25]Intel •
[26]Internet Research Institute • [27]Oracle • [28]Panasonic •
[29]Siemens • [30]Singapore
Conexxus
Over the past couple of years, operators in the Convenience
Retail Industry have come to a realization: “data” may be a
more important asset than “location.” Existing,
purpose-built data streams (such as transaction logs)
exclude important contextual data, and while IoT data could
help fill this gap, operators face big integration
challenges in the absence of standards. The lack of
standards for defining IoT data also makes it difficult for
operators to propose definitions tailored to their needs.
Web of Things promises to solve both the integration and the
definition problems for retail operators. Conexxus, as the
standards organization for Convenience Retail, endorses the
Web of Things work and has already begun to use “Thing
Descriptions” in current committees. Thanks to W3C for
supporting this forward-looking work.
David Ezell, Director of New Initiatives, Conexxus
Fujitsu
The interoperability, the WoT standard trying to solve,
remains the biggest challenge in IoT. The newly defined Web
interface in WoT not only provides unified control over a
various IoT devices, but also enables integration with many
business systems using Web technologies. In addition,
Metadata describing the device functions and Protocol
Binding mapping to the device interfaces can also be applied
to new communications technologies such as 5G, which are
expected to become widespread in the future. Fujitsu believe
that WoT is an indispensable technology and will have a
significant impact on the digitization of our customers'
systems.
Shingo Mizuno, Senior Vice President, Fujitsu Limited
Hitachi
We are pleased to see that "Web of Things" which connects a
diverse range of IoT systems through Web technology has now
been released as a W3C recommendation. Progress in IoT is
driving an accelerated rate of data generated by business
and society. Delivering appropriate feedback to the field
using this data will lead to the creation of new value. We
hope that “Web of Things” will make it easier to access
insights and on-site equipment from across a wide range of
operations and industry sectors, and enable the agile
creation of new value for future society.
Norihiro Suzuki, Vice President & Executive Officer, Chief
Technology Officer, Hitachi, Ltd.
Intel
This new WoT Standard takes a step forward in addressing the
fundamental problem holding back the commercial success of
IOT: the challenge of connecting different systems and
domains. It provides a solution to enable different systems
and domains to communicate and share data.
Eric Siow, Intel Corporation
Internet Research Institute
Internet Research Institute, Inc. welcomes the successful
launch of advisories of ‘Web of Things Architecture’ and
‘Web of Things Thing Description’ by W3C. The Internet has
been taking on a role to connect people to people with
organizations through Web Technology. Accordingly, due to
the spread of the IoT Technology, the Web Technology has
found itself a new role of connecting various things to the
Internet. It means, people, things and organization can now
freely exchange information and data through the Web
Technology. Furthermore, as 5G services spread, it is easy
to imagine the combination of IoT Technology and Web
Technology can lead us towards a prosperous future.
In fact, there are various protocols for IoT Technology
exists today in the world, but unfortunately the
interoperability of information and data exchange in between
people and things, organization and things, things and
things, are not being realized. In this situation, we are
certain that ‘Web of Things Architecture’ and ‘Web of Things
Thing Description’ will become the solution for this matter.
We are at the age of seeing out the preceding era of
Internet that mainly connects people and seeing in an era of
its connecting things. Therefore we strongly believe that
WoT Technology could take a important role to develop a wide
variety of the Internet services. In the future, we intend
to proactively implement the development of services using
WoT Technology.
Hiroshi Fujiwara, CEO, Internet Research Institute, Inc.
Oracle
Lack of interoperability standards and a highly fragmented
ecosystem full of proprietary interfaces have been major
hurdles for enterprise adoption of IoT technologies. These
issue have been compounded by the wide range of proprietary
data formats and connectivity protocols that are used across
many different industries, making it very difficult to build
IoT platforms that can be quickly extended for a large range
of use cases. At Oracle we are thrilled that W3C Web of
Things is addressing these issues head-on with the W3C Web
of Things Specifications. Open standards have always opened
up closed markets and driven rapid technology adoption. We
firmly believe that this IoT ecosystem and the W3C Web of
Things community will play a major role in bringing IoT
technologies mainstream, and become a catalyst for a number
of innovations benefitting a wide range of industries.
Jai Suri, Senior Director, Internet of Things Cloud, Oracle
Panasonic
Panasonic is delighted with the publication of the Web of
Things Recommendations. Our company has been involved in Web
of Things activities since the first Web of Things Workshop
in 2014 and has contributed to the formulation of the
Recommendation through technical proposals and Plugfest.
Panasonic is now transforming itself into a company that
achieves “Lifestyle Updates”. We believe that the Web of
Things will be one of important technologies contributing to
this transformation.
Yoshiyuki Miyabe, Senior Managing Executive Officer and CTO,
Panasonic Corporation
Siemens
The new WoT standard enables Siemens to better combine and
analyze data from different systems and domains in a very
simple yet meaningful way. We use WoT e.g. to integrate
devices and subsystems into our flagship building management
station Desigo CC and from there to the cloud. Heterogenous
and proprietary OT and IoT solutions caused in the past
significant engineering and maintenance effort, e.g. if you
wanted to analyze holistically data from different sources
in a building. Using WoT we can quickly integrate data from
different devices into a data pool and use that pool for
further value creation, e.g. analytics, engineering,
validation, energy optimization.
Helmut Macht, Chief Technology Officer, Siemens
Singapore
The Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech
Singapore) welcomes the rollout of the WoT Architecture and
Thing Description recommendations. We are hopeful that these
recommendations will help to promote the development of an
open, interoperable and standardised IoT ecosystem globally.
This will not just benefit private enterprises operating in
the smart technologies space, but public sector agencies
that are looking to maximise IoT and its potential for their
citizens.
Lim Chinn Hwa, Senior Director, GovTech Singapore’s Smart
Nation Platform Solutions
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