OpenIoT: Open source internet-of-things in the cloud

John Soldatos, Nikos Kefalakis, Manfred Hauswirth, Martin Serrano, Jean Paul Calbimonte, Mehdi Riahi, Karl Aberer, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Arkady Zaslavsky, Ivana Podnar Žarko, Lea Skorin-Kapov, Reinhard Herzog

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    Abstract

    Despite the proliferation of Internet-of-Things (IoT) platforms for building and deploying IoT applications in the cloud, there is still no easy way to integrate heterogeneous geographically and administratively dispersed sensors and IoT services in a semantically interoperable fashion. In this paper we provide an overview of the OpenIoT project, which has developed and provided a first-of-kind open source IoT platform enabling the semantic interoperability of IoT services in the cloud. At the heart of OpenIoT lies the W3C Semantic Sensor Networks (SSN) ontology, which provides a common standards-based model for representing physical and virtual sensors. OpenIoT includes also sensor middleware that eases the collection of data from virtually any sensor, while at the same time ensuring their proper semantic annotation. Furthermore, it offers a wide range of visual tools that enable the development and deployment of IoT applications with almost zero programming. Another key feature of OpenIoT is its ability to handle mobile sensors, thereby enabling the emerging wave of mobile crowd sensing applications. OpenIoT is currently supported by an active community of IoT researchers, while being extensively used for the development of IoT applications in areas where semantic interoperability is a major concern.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationInteroperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things - International Workshop, FP7 OpenIoT Project Held in Conjunction with SoftCOM 2014, Invited Papers
    EditorsMartin Serrano, Ivana Podnar Žarko, Krešimir Pripužic
    PublisherSpringer-Verlag
    Pages13-25
    Number of pages13
    ISBN (Electronic)9783319165455
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015
    EventInternational Workshop on Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things, FP7 OpenIoT Project Held in Conjunction with 22nd International Conference on Software, Telecommunications, and Computer Networks, SoftCOM 2014 - Split, Croatia
    Duration: 18 Sep 201418 Sep 2014

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume9001
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Workshop on Interoperability and Open-Source Solutions for the Internet of Things, FP7 OpenIoT Project Held in Conjunction with 22nd International Conference on Software, Telecommunications, and Computer Networks, SoftCOM 2014
    Country/TerritoryCroatia
    CitySplit
    Period18/09/1418/09/14

    Keywords

    • Internet-of-Things
    • Open source
    • Semantic interoperability

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