Web of Things at Liverpool MakeFest

2. M2M Communication
 The Web of things is a new application layer
for the internet. It allows for machine to
machine communication (M2M).
 The machines we are talking about are
intelligent sensors that can be modelled in
terms of events, properties and actions.

3. Web Things (WT)
 These intelligent sensors or 'Web Things' will
recognise an event, understand its own current state
and take action.
 So imagine a 'Web Thing' that is connected to a door.
Typical events could be to recognise if the door bell
has rang or if someone has inserted a key.
 Once an event has been triggered the 'Web Thing'
can check its own properties to see if the door is open
or closed.
 Then an action can be invoked such as unlocking or
opening the door.

4. How does this look at code
level?
 In JSON-LD this could look like this:
{
“@events” : {
“bell”: null,
“key”: {
“valid” : “boolean”
}
},
“@properties” : {
“is_open” : “boolean”
},
“@actions” : {
“unlock” : null
}
}

5. Web of Things (WOT) Server
 The Web of Things Server provides the Web
Things connectivity to the web.
 The Server hosts the device drivers, platform
API’s for the ‘Web Things’ and storage.
 By using Open Web Standards the WOT
Server can exist within the internet and
become a ‘parallel universe’

6. Interested?
Join the W3C
working group
https://www.w3.o
rg/community/
wot/

7. Special Thanks
 Liverpool MakeFest 2015