Tools, Languages, Methodologies for Representing Semantics on the Web of Things

7Semantic Web-Enabled IoT Integration for a Smart City

On top of the Internet, the web illustrates how a set of relatively simple and open standards can be used to build very flexible systems while preserving efficiency and scalability. The cross-integration and developments of composite applications on the web, alongside its ubiquitous availability across a broad range of devices (e.g. desktops, laptops, mobile phones, set-top boxes and gaming devices), make the web an outstanding candidate for a universal integration platform. Websites no longer only offer pages; now Application Programming Interfaces (API) can be used by other web resources to create new, ad hoc and composite applications that run in the computing cloud and able to be accessed with desktops or mobile computers. In this chapter, we use the web and its emerging technologies as the basis of a smart things application integration platform. We propose a Web of Things (WoT) application architecture offering four layers that simplify the development of applications involving smart things. In this chapter, a WoT application has been applied by taking the dataset of famous cities like New York.

7.1. Introduction: Semantic Web and sensors

The integration of gigantic datasets brings a rise in knowledge discoveries and ontologies organize the domain knowledge as important concepts, relations, axioms and instances. In forest panting domains, ontologies organize the forest planting information for encoding tree or planting ...