semantic metastandards will unlock iot interoperability
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Semantic Metastandards Will
Unlock IoT Interoperability
Introduction
Scope
• Semantics
• The “highest” levels of the stack / APIs
• Not about
• IPv6 v. Thread v BLE
• Weave v. HomeKit
Actuators
• How do I tell something “turn on”
• I don’t care how it does it, just that that it does it
• the concept of "turn on" is basically universal / standard independent
Sensors
• What does { t: 24.0 } mean?
Learning from the Web
• The Web works
• Use URIs
• Use REST
• Use JSON (-like data)
The World TodayParty Like It’s 199[0-9]
All Teh Standardz! • Open Interconnect Consortium
• Thread Group
• AllSeen Alliance
• HyperCat Consortium
• Industrial Internet Consortium
• IoT-GSI
• oneM2M
• Open Mobile Alliance
• Internet of Things (IEE)
• IETF
• IPSO Alliance
• W3C Web of Things Community Group
• W3C Semantic Sensor Network
• ITU Joint Coordination Activity on IoT
Commonalities
• Prescriptive - “Here’s how you do this”
• Roach Motel - “Once you go in you can never go out”
• Complicated - Can a N00b pick it up and use it?
XKCD was wrong
Antistandards
• The industry is actively trying to create more standards
• Malice (IMO)
• “Win the stack”
We’ve Been Here
• Internet Video
• XML
• RPC
• SOAP
• Power!
What’s wrong now?
• Most IoT Standardization efforts are an attempt to recreate the SOAP mistake
• SOAP is not the way to do things
• But how do we do things?…
Proposed Model
Summary
• A Thing has an id and dictionaries
• Dictionaries
• ostate
• istate
• model
• meta
Assertion
• Everything we need to create Interoperability can be done well with this model
• Based on URIs / API / REST / JSON - i.e. how we program the Internet today
Thing ID
• "Globally" Unique ID for all Things
• e.g. Many (but not all) Things provide UUIDs
Dictionaries
• JSON-like dictionaries
• Referenced by URIs
• Manipulate in a “web standard” way
• URI (from id and band)
• PUT / PATCH / GET
istate
• The “input” (toward me) state
• The actual state of the Thing
ostate
• The “output” state
• What we want the state to become
model
• describes terms used in istate and ostate
• "secret sauce"
• JSON-LD
meta
• slow moving data
• e.g.
• name
• facet (what it does)
• zone (where it is)
• reachability
Complete ExampleOn / Off Light
Initial State
Thing
GET /api/lights/1 { "istate": "/api/things/1/istate", "ostate": "/api/things/1/ostate", "model: "https://…/light.jsonld", "meta": "https://…/xxx.json" }
istate
GET /api/lights/1/istate { "o": true }
ostate
GET /api/lights/1/ostate { "o": null }
model
GET https://…/light.jsonld { "iot:attribute": [ { "@id": "#o", "iot:purpose": "iot-purpose:on", "schema:name": "Turn On / Off" } ] }
meta
GET https://…/xxx.json { "schema:name": "On-Off Lamp", "iot:facet": "iot-facet:lighting", "iot:zone": "Living Room" }
"Turn off the light"Phase I - look at model (semantics)
iot-purpose:on
• This means "turn something on / off"
Look it up in model
GET https://…/light.jsonld { "iot:attribute": [ { "@id": "#o", "iot:purpose": "iot-purpose:on", "schema:name": "Turn On / Off", "iot:type": "iot-type:boolean" } ] }
#o is the term
• This is what we will look for in istate and ostate
N.B.
• This is the new thing!
• We can leave the semantics world and manipulate objects "as per usual"
• A more complicated example would have
• units of measure (Fahrenheit sensor)
• what is being measured / controlled, &c
Change StatePhase II - Action with #o
Initial State
GET /api/lights/1/ostate { "o": null }
GET /api/lights/1/istate { "o": true }
The light is off
Send Command
PATCH /api/lights/1/ostate { "o": false }
GET /api/lights/1/istate { "o": true }
The light is off
Interstitial State
GET /api/lights/1/ostate { "o": false }
GET /api/lights/1/istate { "o": true }
Waiting for light to turn on
Final State
GET /api/lights/1/ostate { "o": null }
GET /api/lights/1/istate { "o": false }
The light is on
Reference Implementation
Semantics
• https://iotdb.org/pub
• iot: core definitions
• iot-purpose: sensor and actuators
• iot-unit: units of measure
• iot-facet: facets (what does it do)
HomeStar
• https://homestar.io/about
• https://github.com/dpjanes/iotdb-homestar
• complete reference implementation
HomeStar Modules• homestar-ble
• homestar-denon-avr
• homestar-feed
• homestar-firmata
• homestar-hue
• homestar-lg-smart-tv
• homestar-lifx
• homestar-littlebits
• homestar-rest
• homestar-smart-things
• homestar-sonos
• homestar-template
• homestar-tcp
• homestar-wemo
IoTQL
SET ostate:on = true WHERE iot:facet = "iot:lighting"
HomeStar App
Get in touch! David Janes
http://iotdb.org/social/imadeit/