The vision of connecting every networked computer with each other created the Internet we use today from a research project, which got possible because of the open Internet standard and a tangible architecture. In the chaos of buzzwords and marketing campaigns, the Interoperating between connected devices, Things, has been compromise, suffocating the growth of the Internet of Things domain. The interoperability between wearable devices and other IoT components can lead to development of high intelligence applications enabling non-hardware entities to be part of the wearable domain. We propose a semantic web assisted IoT architecture, which implements standard data models described in relationship graphs. The graph based data structure enables reasoning and intelligence at the machine level laying down road for innovations.

1. What is a Thing of the IoT?
Aspirations of things narrated by a ‘Thing Interpreter’
Pratik Desai, PhD
@chheplo
Principal Scientist
Imbue Wears IoTA Conference 2014

2. Internet is evolving.

3. Today, IoT is mostly about Buzz words, Infographics and Marketing campaigns
IoT needs standardization

4. What is a Thing?
Aspirations of Things
Interact with other Things
Interoperability
Communication protocol Data annotation and modeling
Hierarchy of Things

5. Internet of Things today..

6. Control
Sense and actuate Physical environment

7. Communicate
with Internet
Direct
Using Enablers

8. Compute
Process and infer information

9. Computation
Cyber Physical
a Thing
Communication Control
System
A Thing is an Instance of the Cyber-Physical System.

10. A Thing of the Internet of Things.

11. What is not a Thing in the IoT?

12. What is a Thing?
Aspirations of Things
Interact with other Things
Interoperability
Communication protocol Vocabulary and Grammar
Hierarchy of Things

13. “Languages are so complex they can not just appear from nothing, they must have evolved from
pre-linguistic systems”.
- “Continuity theories” of human languages

14. Web languages are designed to deliver textual context to Human.

15. WiFi Bluetooth
CoAP MQTT
Interoperability
<data>
#4Fhg34&
8sdc
</data>
{
Data: #48sdc,
Sensor:3#2,
}

16. What is a Thing?
Aspirations of Things
Interact with other Things
Interoperability
Communication protocol Data annotation and modeling
Hierarchy of Things

17. Instance
Thing Classes
Thing Types
GE Series XX, Kenwood YY
Refrigerator, Activity tracker, Thermostat…
Base concepts Sensors, Observation, Security..

18. What is a Thing?
Aspirations of Things
Interact with other Things
Interoperability
Communication protocol Data annotation and modeling
Hierarchy of Things

19. Communication protocol
Interoperability
Semantic Gateway
Multi-protocol Proxy Semantic Annotation Service Gateway as Service

20. Semantic Gateway as Service - Architecture

21. Multi-protocol Proxy

22. Gateway as Service

23. Semantic Annotation Service

24. How Semantic Gateway as Service works?

25. What is a Thing?
Aspirations of Things
Interact with other Things
Interoperability
Communication protocol Data annotation and modeling
Hierarchy of Things

26. 35 C
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Current communication methods use information digested by Humans.

27. Semantic Repository of Things
Distributed system such as DNS
Stores Thing’s descriptions in graphs
Provides sescription through APIs
Community based description
aggregation

28. a Thing
Hello
IoT
says
Describing resources in Graphs

29. 101 102 103
Whirlpool_SWM1
Toaster
Hierarchy of Things
Base
Models
Thing
Instances
Thing Types
GE_SmartZ1
~50 B
Instances of Things
Classes of Things
GE_SmartX1
Washing Machine Refrigerator
Smart
Refrigerator
Ultra Smart
Refrigerator
Kenwood_SR1
Kenwood_ULR1
MyWM_101 MySRF_101 MyWM_102
MyFridge_102
103WM 103RF
Thing Classes
Repository
SensorsResourcesActuators
~50 M
~50 K
Types of Things
~5000
concepts
Security Platforms Assets
Sub Types
Things
Models
RACP

30. Semantic Data annotations

31. $#*&^5!
a Thing Hello
IoT
says
Refrigerator
Temperatur
e Temperature?
Standardized Semantic Data models enables automatic discovery.

32. How Semantic Repository works?
Web form
Web based graph upload
tool
API upload tool
Semantic graph search
SPARQL queries
Authentication
Neo4j
Graph DB
Django
+
django4neo
Python
SPARQL
bridge
Repository
endpoint
Graph Input
Search
Website Front-End
Back-End

33. Thank you.