Open services for IoT cloud applications in the future internet

Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging area that not only requires development of infrastructure but also deployment of new services capable of supporting multiple, scalable (cloud-based) and interoperable (multi-domain) applications. In the race of designing the IoT as part of the Future Internet architecture, academic and ICT's (Information and Communication Technology) industry communities have realized that a common IoT problem to be tackled is the interoperability of the information. In this paper we review recent trends and challenges on interoperability, and discuss how semantic technologies, open service frameworks and information models can support data interoperability in the design of the Future Internet, taking the IoT and Cloud Computing as reference examples of application domains.