SMART SEMANTIC MIDDLEWARE FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS

TLDR

Ubiquitous systems are becoming too complex for traditional management, and heterogeneity hampers interoperability; semantic and agent technologies are promising solutions. The paper outlines a vision for an IoT middleware that enables self‑managed complex industrial systems composed of distributed heterogeneous components. The authors analyze the challenges that must be addressed to realize this middleware.

Abstract

As ubiquitous systems become increasingly complex, traditional solutions to manage and control them reach their limits and pose a need for self-manageability. Also, heterogeneity of the ubiquitous components, standards, data formats, etc, creates significant obstacles for interoperability in such complex systems. The promising technologies to tackle these problems are the Semantic technologies, for interoperability, and the Agent technologies for management of complex systems. This paper describes our vision of a middleware for the Internet of Things, which will allow creation of self-managed complex systems, in particular industrial ones, consisting of distributed and heterogeneous components of different nature. We also present an analysis of issues to be resolved to realize such a middleware.