Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) is bringing Internet connectivity to a wide range of devices which results in an increasing number of products for smart home, industry 4.0 and/or smart cities. Even though IoT has the ambition to reach an increasing amount of devices and be scalable across different domains, lack of interoperability inhibits this scope to be attained. Recent standardization efforts by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) are addressing the interoperability problem by the means of Thing Description (TD) that allows humans and machines to understand the capabilities and communication interfaces of IoT devices. In this paper, we show a more systematic and streamlined development of IoT devices and systems that relies on the TD standard. We introduce three different complementary methods that can be applied independently in the different stages of the development, or as a framework to streamline the development of IoT devices and systems. As a result of using the TD standard, interoperability between IoT devices of various stakeholders is ensured from early stages and the time to market is reduced.
About the authors
Ege Korkan studied in INSA de Lyon, France, after which he has joined the Embedded Systems and Internet of Things group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany as a Doctoral Researcher. His research revolves around using Web of Things technologies during the design, test and diagnosis of decentralized IoT systems. He is also a contributor to and an active member of the Web of Things Working Group of the W3C.
Dr. Sebastian Kaebisch is a Senior Key Expert at Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich, Germany. His work focuses on the efficient realization and usage of standardized Internet and Web technologies for the Industrial IoT domain. Sebastian Kaebisch is an active member and contributor of international standardization groups such as ISO/IEC 15118, IEC 63110 and W3C Web of Things. In the latter he is co-chair and coordinates the topics around the W3C Thing Description.
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Steinhorst is an Associate Professor at Technical University of Munich in Germany. He leads the Embedded Systems and Internet of Things group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also a Co-Program PI in the Electrification Suite and Test Lab of the research center TUMCREATE in Singapore. The research of Prof. Steinhorst centers around design methodology and the hardware/software co-design of distributed embedded systems for use in IoT, smart energy and automotive applications.
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