Paper Info
Title
Managing things and services with semantics: A survey
Abstract
This paper presents a survey on the usage, opportunities and pitfalls of semantic technologies in the Internet of Things. The survey was conducted in the context of a semantic enterprise integration platform. In total we surveyed sixty-one individuals from industry and academia on their views and current usage of IoT technologies in general, and semantic technologies in particular. Our semantic enterprise integration platform aims for interoperability at a service level, as well as at a protocol level. Therefore, also questions regarding the use of application layer protocols, network layer protocols and management protocols were integrated into the survey. The survey suggests that there is still a lot of heterogeneity in IoT technologies, but first indications of the use of standardized protocols exist. Semantic technologies are being recognized as of potential use, mainly in the management of things and services. Nonetheless, the participants still see many obstacles which hinder the widespread use of semantic technologies: Firstly, a lack of training as traditional embedded programmers are not well aware of semantic technologies. Secondly, a lack of standardization in ontologies, which would enable interoperability and thirdly, a lack of good tooling support.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/NOMS.2014.6838366
Network Operations and Management Symposium
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet of Things,ontologies (artificial intelligence),open systems,protocols,semantic Web,Internet of Things,IoT technologies,application layer protocols,embedded programmers,interoperability,management protocols,network layer protocols,ontologies,protocol level,semantic enterprise integration platform,semantic technologies,service level,standardized protocols
Ontology (information science),Semantic integration,Application layer,Semantic technology,Computer science,Interoperability,Knowledge management,Semantic interoperability,Enterprise integration,Semantics
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1542-1201
10
0.76
References 
Authors
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthias Thoma1141.98
Torsten Braun21587190.59
Carsten Magerkurth373261.51
Alexandru-Florian Antonescu4413.59