Enterprise Integration of Smart Objects using Semantic Service Descriptions

Thoma, Matthias; Braun, Torsten; Magerkurth, Carsten (4 April 2014). Enterprise Integration of Smart Objects using Semantic Service Descriptions. In: IEEE Wireless Communication and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2014) (pp. 3426-3431). IEEE 10.1109/WCNC.2014.6953133

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Integrating physical objects (smart objects) and enterprise IT systems is still a labor intensive, mainly manual task done by domain experts. On one hand, enterprise IT backend systems are based on service oriented architectures (SOA) and driven by business rule engines or business process execution engines. Smart objects on the other hand are often programmed at very low levels. In this paper we describe an approach that makes the integration of smart objects with such backends systems easier. We introduce semantic endpoint descriptions based on Linked USDL. Furthermore, we show how different communication patterns can be integrated into these endpoint descriptions. The strength of our endpoint descriptions is that they can be used to automatically create REST or SOAP endpoints for enterprise systems, even if which they are not able to talk to the smart objects directly. We evaluate our proposed solution with CoAP, UDP and 6LoWPAN, as we anticipate the industry converge towards these standards. Nonetheless, our approach also allows easy integration with backend systems, even if no standardized protocol is used.

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