OpenIoT Sample Clauses

OpenIoT. Another EC project that focuses on the semantic integration of devices and services in the Internet of Things is OpenIoT. So far, no publications are yet available about the progress of the project, so the gathered information was mainly taken from the official project website5. OpenIoT is concerned with a variety of different areas: it plans to develop a middleware for sensors and sensor networks, describe internet-connected objects by ontologies, semantic models and open linked-data techniques and aims to provide an extension to cloud computing. Firstly, the project intends to integrate the Global Sensor Network (GSN) to provide the basis for looking up and registering internet-connected objects. Furthermore, OpenIoT is planned as middleware platform that is designed to support flexible configuration and deployment of algorithms for collection and filtering information streams stemming from the internet- connected objects5. At the same time the middleware will be responsible to generate and process important business and applications events. Cloud computing mainly describes the usage of internet-connected objects and machines in order to distribute processing power and storage capabilities onto different entities in a so called cloud and further make these capacities available as a service. The OpenIoT project aims to build on current state-of-the-art cloud computing middleware and equip it with the ability to use and configure sensor based services5 with respect to cloud and utility computing. As such, within OpenIoT it is planned to provide instantiations of cloud-based and utility- based sensing services and define so-called “Sensing-as-a-Service”, “Location-as-a-service” 5 ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇ and “Traceability-as-a-Service” models for internet-connected objects. Another main research objective is semantic object-to-object interaction and communication. The interoperability between internet-connected objects in OpenIoT is to be assured with the help of semantic technologies like RDF and SPARQL. The project is geared towards enhancing existing interaction approaches like GSN with semantic sensor descriptions. As the goals of the OpenIoT project fit well with the goals of the IoT6 project, a collaboration between the two projects is desirable and planned.