Semantic description, discovery and integration for the Internet of Things

Abstract

To share and publish the domain knowledge of IoT objects, the development of a semantic IoT model based directory system that manages meta-data and relationships of IoT objects is required. Many researches focus on static relationships between IoT objects. However, because complex relationships between various resources change with time in an IoT environment, an efficient method for updating the meta-data is required. Thus, we propose an IoT-DS as the IoT directory that supports semantic description, discovery, and integration of IoT objects. Firstly, we introduce a semantic IoT component model to establish a shared conceptualization. Secondly, we present general cases of relationships to efficiently interact between IoT-DS and IoT objects. Thirdly, we construct IoT-DS as a Web portal. Finally, we verify in our evaluation study that the query processing time and communication workload imposed by the proposed approach are reduced.