IOT Semantic Interoperability Workshop 2016

The author believes that there is a strong distinction between the “Internet of Things” (IOT) and “Things on the Internet” (TOTI). Many of the current use cases can be solved with the TOTI view for example cloud based data analytics where devices passively provide data that are aggregated and processed in the cloud. In such cases, solving the primary requirements of connecting these devices (securely?) and describing the data on these devices consistently is sufficient. On the other, IOT requires a tighter integration of multiple systems into a consistent and coordinated higher order system i.e. a “system of systems” view. While IOT view can solve all the TOTI use cases, there are additional use cases that require orchestration, control, coordinated interaction, determinism that require definition of and coordination of semantics at multiple levels.