Research Article
PROFICIENT: Productivity Tool for Semantic Interoperability in an Open IoT Ecosystem
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.7-11-2017.2273567, author={Niklas Kolbe and J\^{e}r\^{e}my Robert and Sylvain Kubler and Yves Le Traon}, title={PROFICIENT: Productivity Tool for Semantic Interoperability in an Open IoT Ecosystem}, proceedings={14th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS}, year={2018}, month={4}, keywords={interoperability internet of things web apis semantics smart city}, doi={10.4108/eai.7-11-2017.2273567} }- Niklas Kolbe
Jérémy Robert
Sylvain Kubler
Yves Le Traon
Year: 2018
PROFICIENT: Productivity Tool for Semantic Interoperability in an Open IoT Ecosystem
MOBIQUITOUS
ACM
DOI: 10.4108/eai.7-11-2017.2273567
Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) is promising to open up opportunities for businesses to offer new services to uncover untapped needs. However, before taking advantage of such opportunities, there are still challenges ahead, one of which is the development of strategies to abstract from the heterogeneity of APIs that shape today's IoT. It is becoming increasingly complex for developers and smart connected objects to efficiently discover, parse, aggregate and process data from disparate information systems, as different protocols, data models, and serializations for APIs exist on the market. Standards play an indisputable role in reducing such a complexity, but will not solve all problems related to interoperability. For example, it will remain a permanent need to help and guide data/service providers to efficiently describe the data/services they would like to expose to the IoT. This paper presents PROFICIENT, a productivity tool that fulfills this need, which is showcased and evaluated considering recent open messaging standards and a smart parking scenario.