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.
The authors of REF describe their own vision a middleware for the Internet of Things, with the aims of creating a new generation middleware platform which will allow creation of self-managed complex systems, in particular industrial ones, consisting of distributed, heterogeneous, shared and reusable components of different nature.
SMART SEMANTIC MIDDLEWARE FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS
ICINCO-ICSO
Engineering Computer Science