Collaboration of IoT devices using semantically Enabled Resource Oriented Middleware

Abstract

The use of explicit semantics for the web services as pioneered by many semantic web service projects has enabled us to overcome the heterogeneity of data and resources and to improve the tasks like data sharing, resource discovery, and integration among them. As a result, the semantic web service has also attracted tremendous interests of various research communities and industry to tackle the challenging problem of heterogeneity, interoperability and flexibility in Internet of Things (IoT), which characteristically interconnects and communicates among the extremely large number of highly distributed and heterogeneous devices. The IoT sources are typically resource constraint in nature and for the clients to fetch the list of services offered by the devices, a lightweight mechanism should also be adapted. Hence, in this research work, to facilitate efficient use of information generated from the IoT devices and automatically drive entities to meet the needs of human beings a semantically enabled resource oriented middleware solution based on RESTful web service is proposed. The middleware solution drives us to locate, find, select and invoke the appropriate services in an autonomic and a flexible way. It also serves as a platform to create context-aware and personalized IoT-based services and applications.