Web of Things Working Group

The Web of Things seeks to counter the fragmentation of the IoT through standard complementing building blocks (e.g., metadata and APIs) that enable easy integration across IoT platforms and application domains.
 
Thing Description:
 
Semantic vocabularies for describing the data and interaction models exposed to applications, the choice of communications patterns provided by protocols, and serialization formats suitable for processing on resource-constrained devices and transmission over constrained networks.
 
Scripting API:
 
Platform-independent application-facing API for Thing-to-Thing interaction and Thing lifecycle management.
 
Binding Templates:
 
Example mappings from the abstract messages to specific common platforms and protocols in collaboration with the corresponding organizations.
 
Security and Privacy:
 
Cross-cutting policies and mechanisms integrated into the other building blocks to describe and implement security and privacy policies to enable secure and safe interaction across different IoT platforms.
 
Of these, the first deliverable, the normative Thing Description standard, is central, with the other items playing supporting roles. The Scripting API is also normative but simply serves to provide a standardized and convenient way to access the functionality of the Thing Description from a programming language in order to build concrete applications. Binding Templates are informational and provide mappings to concrete protocols. This deliverable also provides templates for describing further protocol mappings through the Thing Description. The Security and Privacy deliverable is normative, but while considered separately, its implementation is integrated into the other deliverables.