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A Visual Paradigm for IoT Solutions Development

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Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things

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Despite the proliferation of Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications and services, there are still very few tools and techniques for developing IoT solutions in a visual fashion through minimal (or even) zero programming. In this paper we introduce a novel approach for developing IoT solution through visual development tools. The presented approach presents several advantages, in particular: (a) It leverages standards-based semantic models for sensors and IoT context (notably the W3 SSN ontology), (b) It is based on popular/mainstream web-based technologies (i.e. SPARQL, REST), (c) It provides a basis for integrated development of IoT services on the basis of a W3C SSN based Model Driven Architecture (MDA), (d) It is implemented as open source software as part of the OpenIoT open source project.

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Part of this work has been carried out in the scope of the OpenIoT project (FP7-287305) (http://openiot.eu). The authors acknowledge help and contributions from all partners of the project.

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  1. Athens Information Technology, 0,8 Km Markopoulo Ave., P.O. Box 68, 19002, Peania, Greece

    Nikos Kefalakis & John Soldatos

  2. SENSAP Microsystems AE, Hydras 2, 18346, Moschato, Greece

    Achilleas Anagnostopoulos & Panagiotis Dimitropoulos

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  2. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Krešimir Pripužić

  3. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

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Kefalakis, N., Soldatos, J., Anagnostopoulos, A., Dimitropoulos, P. (2015). A Visual Paradigm for IoT Solutions Development. In: Podnar Žarko, I., Pripužić, K., Serrano, M. (eds) Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9001. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16546-2_4

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