Towards Achieving Semantic Interoperability in an IoT-enabled Smart Campus

Smart campuses are smart communities that have evolved from concepts of a smart city. With the adoption of latest and advanced technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), smart campuses aim to provide timely services and reduce operational costs and time. The IoT brings connectivity to about every objects found in the physical space ranging from connected fridges and cars to cities. The technologies and systems in a smart environment represent knowledge in different ways and languages, thus leading to interoperability problems. To ensure a common understanding of the meaning of the content (information) being exchanged by the systems, formal ways are required to express system requirements and capabilities. This makes semantic interoperability a challenging research problem to support seamless and heterogeneous communications in IoT. The paper therefore aims to resolve semantic interoperability by identifying issues and requirements for a semantic model in an IoT-enabled smart campus.