Web of Things Augmentation

Abstract

The importance of the Internet of Things (IoT) in our society is reflected by its exponential growth over recent and years to come. The Web of Things (WoT) emerged as a special case of IoT, allowing end-users to deal with their devices through Web applications, with which they are familiar. However, as more users are reached by this technology, it becomes more difficult to fulfil specific user needs, i.e., user requirements these technologies are not prepared to cover. For that matter, this paper presents an approach to augmenting smart devices for the WoT through the augmentation of their corresponding Web applications. In this way, devices may be enriched with new behavior (composed by the existing ones) to better fit further user needs. We propose Domoto as a solution for achieving device augmentation, composed by a framework to build browser extensions that augments devices behavior, and a Web Application that manages devices and extensions.