Towards Device Interoperability in an Heterogeneous Internet of Things Environment

Abstract

Internet of Things can be viewed as a global network of devices with capabilities of autonomous communication. This is one step ahead of current state, where automatic mutual service communication without human interference is limited. This paper evaluates possibilities of extending nowadays commonly used protocols to achieve higher level of autonomous device communication. It is presumed that fully automatic machine to machine communication and understanding is not yet technologically possible. Several ways of extending current communication protocols by semantic metadata are described and their impact on device communication evaluated.