Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

An Architecture for Enabling IoT Edge Devices to Allow Scalable Publishing of Semantic Linked Data

  • Conference paper
  • First Online:
Book cover Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR 2019)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 1057))

Included in the following conference series:

  • 753 Accesses

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing exponentially and is creating enormous sets of data that often reside in proprietary formats and storage containers. Linked Data and the Semantic Web has been around for a long time but adoption by industry has been slow. Linked Data research tends to have an academic bias and real world applicability is often neglected. Based on our experience with ubiworx, an IoT framework used in several real world projects, we propose an architecture using intelligent edge gateways, scalable cloud micro-services and semantic adaption layers to bridge the gap between legacy sensor data acquisition and publishing linked data to ontologies such as Semantic Sensor Network (SSN) and Smart Appliances REFerence ontology (SAREF). In combination, the edge gateway paradigm and the layered cloud micro-services paradigm intersect to provide an accelerated path to publishing linked sensor data while achieving the scalability required by the explosive growth of the IoT and doing so with the best efficiency of resources. Dynamically creating Linked Data serialisations from rapidly changing sensor data sets is a key enabler for adoption of linked data principals in the IoT space.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. W3C. https://www.w3.org/

  2. Champin, P.A.: RDF-REST: a unifying framework for web APIs and linked data. In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pp. 10–19 (2013)

    Google Scholar 

  3. SPARQL Query Language for RDF. https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/

  4. Semantic Sensor Network Ontology. https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-ssn/

  5. Daniele, L., Solanki, M., den Hartog, F., Roes, J.: Interoperability for smart appliances in the IoT world. In: Groth, P., et al. (eds.) ISWC 2016. LNCS, vol. 9982, pp. 21–29. Springer, Cham (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46547-0_3

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  6. Laine, M.: Restful Web Services for the Internet of Things (2012)

    Google Scholar 

  7. Bauer, M., Davies, J., Girod-Genet, M., Underwood, M.: Semantic Interoperability for the Web of Things. Research Gate (2016)

    Google Scholar 

  8. Dizdarević, J., Carpio, F., Jukan, A., Masip-Bruin, X.: A survey of communication protocols for internet of things and related challenges of fog and cloud computing integration. ACM Comput. Surv. 51(6), 116 (2019)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Gyrard, A., Bonnet, C., Boudaoud, K. and Serrano, M.: LOV4IoT: a second life for ontology-based domain knowledge to build semantic web of things applications. In: Proceedings - 2016 IEEE 4th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2016, pp. 254–261 (2016)

    Google Scholar 

  10. Saransig, A., Tapia, F.: Performance analysis of monolithic and micro service architectures – containers technology. In: Mejia, J., Muñoz, M., Rocha, Á., Peña, A., Pérez-Cisneros, M. (eds.) CIMPS 2018. AISC, vol. 865, pp. 270–279. Springer, Cham (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01171-0_25

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  11. Fowler, M.: Microservices: A Definition of This New Architectural Term. http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html. Accessed 22 Aug 2016

  12. Docker. https://www.docker.com/

  13. AWS Lambda Serverless Computing. https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/

  14. Redis in memory data cache. https://redis.io/

  15. Ubiworx API. https://ubiworx.com/documentation/api/ubiworx-REST-api.html

  16. LDP. https://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Ubiworx Systems, Limerick, Ireland

    Mark Burkley

Authors
  1. Mark Burkley
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Mark Burkley .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Emmanouel Garoufallou

  2. Guglielmo Marconi University, Rome, Italy

    Francesca Fallucchi

  3. Georg Eckert Institute – Leibniz Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, Germany

    Ernesto William De Luca

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this paper

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this paper

Burkley, M. (2019). An Architecture for Enabling IoT Edge Devices to Allow Scalable Publishing of Semantic Linked Data. In: Garoufallou, E., Fallucchi, F., William De Luca, E. (eds) Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1057. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36599-8_28

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36599-8_28

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-030-36598-1

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-030-36599-8

  • eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation