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Interoperability within the Internet of Things is mired in entrenched incompatible specifications, backed by industry giants and consortiums seemingly hoping to “win the stack”. There is little hope that a common set of standards will be universally adopted that will allow all our Things to work together. However, by applying some of the core lessons of the Internet - use URIs for IDs, manipulate documents using the REST Model, and that documents should be “JSON-like” dictionary - we can create near seamless interoperability between Things independent of their standards stack.
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http://schema.org/Thing - not to be confused with a “Thing” in the IoT sense.
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Janes, D.P. (2016). Semantic Metastandards Will Unlock IoT Interoperability. In: Mandler, B., et al. Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures. IoT360 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 170. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47075-7_44
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