A lightweight architecture for the Web-of-Things

Abstract

The past few years have marked a shift in Web development as users have become accustomed to Web applications with dynamic content and enhanced user experience. New emerging protocols and standards seek to provide increased flexibility by making available new models of interaction to Web applications. One such application is the Web of Things. In this paper, we propose a new lightweight architecture for the Web of Things, based on RESTful approaches. We further show, through a proof of concept application, taking a smart city as its context, how new technologies can be combined to support our proposed architecture and application development for the Web of Things. We argue that the use of protocols and standards such as WebSocket, WebSocket API, Server-Sent Events and JSON, the JavaScript Object Notation, can make the vision of the Web of Things a reality. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.