InterDataNet: A Scalable Middleware Infrastructure for Smart Data Integration

Abstract

At the core of the Internet/Web of Things lays the issue of large-scale interoperability of heterogeneous Things/Objects networks. Going beyond limited-scale interoperability, middleware requires dealing with a number of issues targeting, among others, the Web-wide Object addressability and Objects capabilities orchestration for the development of different applications. Such a goal requires not only addressing “internetworking things” at a communication level but also “interdataworking of things” i.e., providing interoperability among Objects smart data. Indeed, the smarter and the most interoperable are the data, the easier will be sharing, linking, and processing between distributed {IoT} applications. This chapter discusses the architectural requirements of the {InterDataNet} ({IDN}) framework. {IDN} approach provides scalable integration, management, and reuse of large numbers of Objects networks in the Web of Data, thus enabling Web of Things applications. The core of the {IDN} is provided through three main views: the {IDN}-Information Model, the {IDN}-Service Architecture, and the {IDN}-Applications.