Managing Things and Services with Semantics: A Survey

Thoma, Matthias; Braun, Torsten; Magerkurth, Carsten; Antonescu, Alexandru-Florian (5 May 2014). Managing Things and Services with Semantics: A Survey. In: IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2014) (pp. 1-5). IEEE 10.1109/NOMS.2014.6838366

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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.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Computer Science (INF) > Communication and Distributed Systems (CDS)
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Computer Science (INF)

UniBE Contributor:

Braun, Torsten

Subjects:

000 Computer science, knowledge & systems
500 Science > 510 Mathematics

Publisher:

IEEE

Language:

English

Submitter:

Dimitrios Xenakis

Date Deposited:

03 Apr 2014 18:04

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:33

Publisher DOI:

10.1109/NOMS.2014.6838366

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.49923

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/49923

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