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Abstract

Interoperability has become a cornerstone for the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT infrastructures that rely on the Web have become pervasive, by either publishing their data or enabling their remote management through it. The interoperability at the semantic level provides an environment in which the heterogeneities of the different IoT infrastructures are wrapped, and, therefore, systems can interact transparently. Achieving full interoperability requires the implementation of three layers: the technical, the syntactic, and the semantic layer. Furthermore, query-based transparent discovery and distributed access of IoT infrastructures can be implemented on top of these interoperability layers. In this chapter, the implementation of these three layers, with focus on the semantic layer, is discussed, as well as, the implementation of the interoperability services that provide transparent discovery and access of IoT infrastructures on the Web. At the end of each section, a reader can find examples from the EU project VICINITY that describe and demonstrate real-world showcases for the theoretical concepts explained.

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Notes

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    http://lot.linkeddata.es.

  2. 2.

    http://vicinity.iot.linkeddata.es.

  3. 3.

    http://themis.linkeddata.es.

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    http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn.

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    http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa.

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    http://vicinity.iot.linkeddata.es.

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    https://www.w3.org/WoT/WG/.

  8. 8.

    http://www.onem2m.org/technical/onem2m-ontologies.

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    https://openconnectivity.org/.

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    http://vicinity.iot.linkeddata.es/vicinity/conformance.html.

  11. 11.

    https://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub/.

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    http://vicinity.iot.linkeddata.es/vicinity/.

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    https://github.com/vicinityh2020/vicinity-agent.

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    http://iot.linkeddata.es/def/wot-mappings/index-en.html.

  15. 15.

    http://iot.linkeddata.es/def/adapters.

  16. 16.

    https://w3id.org/def/saref4city.

  17. 17.

    https://w3id.org/def/saref4bldg.

  18. 18.

    https://ontology.tno.nl/saref/.

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    http://iot.linkeddata.es/def/wot.

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    https://github.com/vicinityh2020/vicinity-gateway-api-services.

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Cimmino, A., Fernández-Izquierdo, A., Poveda-Villalón, M., García-Castro, R. (2021). Ontologies for IoT Semantic Interoperability. In: Zivkovic, C., Guan, Y., Grimm, C. (eds) IoT Platforms, Use Cases, Privacy, and Business Models. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45316-9_5

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