VICINITY: IoT Semantic Interoperability Based on the Web of Things

Internet of Things ecosystems have been developed under different standards and semantics leading to sparse islands of information. The lack of consensus regarding both standards and semantics hinders the interoperability among Internet of Things ecosystems, preventing the exploitation of the huge potential expected by integrating such ecosystems. In this paper we present the H2020 project VICINITY, a decentralized bottom-up standards-based platform to integrate Internet of Things ecosystems avoiding the tedious task of adapting their semantics. VICINITY offers transparent interoperability among such environments as a service in the cloud. In addition, dynamic discovery of new ecosystems is included in VICINITY. We aim at implementing VICINITY in several real-world pilot scenarios in order to validate our approach