IoT-Lite: A Lightweight Semantic Model for the Internet of Things

Maria Bermudez-Edo, Tarek Elsaleh, Payam Barnaghi, Kerry Taylor

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    Abstract

    Over the past few years the semantics community has developed ontologies to describe concepts, relationships between different entities in various application domains, including Internet of Things (IoT) applications. A key problem is that most of the IoT related semantic descriptions are not as widely adopted as expected. One of the main concerns of users, developers is that semantic techniques increase the complexity, processing time, therefore they are unsuitable for dynamic, responsive environments such as the IoT. To address this concern, we propose IoT-Lite, an instantiation of the semantic sensor network (SSN) ontology to describe key IoT concepts allowing interoperability, discovery of sensory data in heterogeneous IoT platforms by a lightweight semantics. We propose 10 rules for good, scalable semantic model design, follow them to create IoT-Lite. We also demonstrate the scalability of IoT-Lite by providing some experimental analysis, assess IoT-Lite against another solution in terms of round time trip (RTT) performance for query-response times.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - 13th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, 16th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, IEEE International Conference on Internet of People and IEEE Smart World Congress and Workshops, UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP-SmartWorld 2016
    EditorsDidier El Baz, Julien Bourgeois
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages90-97
    Number of pages8
    ISBN (Electronic)9781509027705
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 12 Jan 2017
    Event13th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, 16th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, IEEE International Conference on Internet of People and IEEE Smart World Congress and Workshops, UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP-SmartWorld 2016 - Toulouse, France
    Duration: 18 Jul 201621 Jul 2016

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - 13th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, 16th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, IEEE International Conference on Internet of People and IEEE Smart World Congress and Workshops, UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP-SmartWorld 2016

    Conference

    Conference13th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, 16th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, IEEE International Conference on Internet of People and IEEE Smart World Congress and Workshops, UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP-SmartWorld 2016
    Country/TerritoryFrance
    CityToulouse
    Period18/07/1621/07/16

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