The Web of Things has become mainstream: REST (though sometimes interpreted liberally) and Web best practices today constitute the de-facto application layer of smart physical objects within Internet of Things deployments. WoT Mission Accomplished! However, the WoT workshop series was never only about technology, but rather enabled us to establish a community of academics and practitioners who are on the forefront of research fields from real-time communication with physical objects to discovery and search, and from the composition of services provided by smart devices to resource-constrained smart environments. In this year's eighth iteration of the International Workshop on the Web of Things, we therefore invited the WoT community to discuss about our Next Big Thing.
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Along with Internet of Things (IoT), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) are going to be an important ingredient for the design and development of future smart environments, in particular in enterprise contexts. The vision of Web of Augmented Things (WoAT) -- discussed in this paper -- aims at exploiting the Web of Things to enable the development of open interoperable pervasive hybrid systems integrating IoT and AR/MR, mashing up both physical Things and augmented, AR-based ones.
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By abstracting devices to Web resources, the Web of Things (WoT) fosters innovation and rapid prototyping in the Internet of Things (IoT): it enables developers to use standard Web technologies for creating mashups of Web services that perceive and act on the physical world (a.k.a. physical mashups). In recent years, however, it has become apparent that current programming paradigms for Web development have important shortcomings when it comes to engineering IoT systems: static Web mashups cannot adapt to dynamic IoT environments, and manually mashing-up the IoT does not scale. To address these limitations, WoT researchers started to look for means to engineer WoT systems that are more autonomous in pursuit of their design objectives. The engineering of autonomous systems has already been explored to a large extent in the scientific literature on artificial intelligence. In this position paper, we distill that large body of research into a coherent set of abstractions for engineering autonomous WoT systems.
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Jose Lobo, Sergio Firmenich, G. Rossi, Nahuel Defossé, M. Wimmer
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.
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The creation of open APIs is one of the core concepts advocated by the Web of Things community. However, drastically open APIs to the basic functional components of physical devices are only found in research projects and seem to not yet find favor with a wider audience. With this paper, I would like to initiate a discussion about the value of open APIs for the producers and users of smart devices, and for society as a whole: How can manufacturers be motivated to outfit their products with open APIs? How can consumers be educated about the benefits of not being locked into manufacturer ecosystems? And might the decision of opening up a device API even be subject to antitrust law?
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