Linked services for M2M communication with Enterprise IT systems

• Published in: 2013 9th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) pp. 1212 - 1216
• Main Authors: Thoma, Matthias, Antonescu, Alexandru-Florian, Mintsi, Theano, Braun, Torsten
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-07-2013
• Subjects: Business; business integration; enterprise it; linked data; Protocols; Resource description framework; service descriptions; Service-oriented architecture; Temperature sensors; wireless sensor network; Wireless sensor networks; wsn
• ISBN: 1467324795; 9781467324793
• ISSN: 2376-6492
• DOI: 10.1109/IWCMC.2013.6583729

Linking the physical world to the Internet, also known as the Internet of Things, has increased available information and services in everyday life and in the Enterprise world. In Enterprise IT an increasing number of communication is done between IT backend systems and small IoT devices, for example sensor networks or RFID readers. This introduces some challenges in terms of complexity and integration. We are working on the integration of IoT devices into Enterprise IT by leveraging SOA techniques and Semantic Web technologies. We present a SOA based integration platform for connecting WSNs and large enterprise business processes. For ensuring interoperability our platform is based on Linked Services. These are thoroughly described, machine-readable, machine-reasonable service descriptions.