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Overcoming Service-Level Interoperability Challenges of the IoT

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Connected Environments for the Internet of Things

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is a complex ecosystem of devices, solutions, services and applications. IoT is highly heterogeneous because devices focus on proprietary technology and interfaces. To realize its full value, interoperability of ‘things’ becomes an important component of the ecosystem, which must be satisfactorily achieved. At present, however, it is impossible to manage individually a vast amount of different IoT devices and their application programming interfaces (APIs). Interoperability is therefore one of the main problems of the IoT paradigm. Much of the existing IoT interoperability research elaborates on techniques and methods to achieve interoperability. Multiple IoT standards exist today and new ones are being created. Different IoT standards compete; and a generally globally accepted standard does not currently exist. There are, in fact, many unsolved interoperability issues occurring at different levels, including data, service, network and application. This chapter focuses on service-level IoT interoperability problems and solutions. It reviews the use case of possible interoperability resolutions. The chapter also identifies future research problems related to IoT service-level interoperability .

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This chapter has been fully supported by the Croatian Science Foundation under the project IP-2014-09-3877.

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Andročec, D. (2017). Overcoming Service-Level Interoperability Challenges of the IoT. In: Mahmood, Z. (eds) Connected Environments for the Internet of Things. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70102-8_5

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