SMART SEMANTIC MIDDLEWARE FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS

Published 1 January 2008Open access

Artem Katasonov, Olena Kaykova, Oleksiy Khriyenko, Sergiy Nikitin, Vagan Terziyan

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TL;DR

The vision of a middleware for the Internet of Things, which will allow creation of self-managed complex systems, in particular industrial ones, consisting of distributed and heterogeneous components of different nature is described.

Abstract

traditional solutions to manage and control them reach their limits and pose a need for self-manageability. Also, heterogeneity of the ubiquitous components, stan-dards, data formats, etc, creates significant obstacles for interoperability in such complex systems. The promis-ing technologies to tackle these problems are the Semantic technologies, for interoperability, and the Agent technologies for management of complex systems. This paper describes our vision of a middleware for the Internet of Things, which will allow creation of self-managed complex systems, in particular industrial ones, consisting of distributed and heterogeneous components of different nature. We also present an analysis of issues to be resolved to realize such a middleware. 1

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