User-assisted Semantic Interoperability in Internet of Things Visually-facilitated Ontology Alignment through Visually-enriched Ontology and Thing Descriptions

Today, we make a separation between the real/physical world and the Internet. It is time for these two be blended and provide ubiquitous access and interoperability online. We are approaching Internet of Things a forthcoming technological revolution that will radically change our environment and enable innovative applications and services. To make this happen, we have to eliminate the fragmentation in used technologies and have to make the devices be used across various applications and services. We need to find a way to actually carry out the necessary and massive deployment of ubiquitous devices. So we need to put more effort into the design of tools to automate deployment and configuration of devices. This paper tackled a problem of an effective way to support interoperability in Internet of Things. We propose visually-enriched approach for user-powered ontology alignment and semantic description of Things. Keywords-Mashup supported semantic visual mapping; visual ontology alignment; visual semantic human interface; semantic interoperability.