Semantic Web Gets Closer To The Internet of Things by Jennifer Zaino. [herein, IoT = Internet of Things]
From the post:
The Internet of Things is coming, but it needs a semantic backbone to flourish.
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Applying semantic technologies to IoT, however, has several research challenges, the authors note, pointing out that IoT and using semantics in IoT is still in its early days. Being in on the ground floor of this movement is undeniably exciting to the research community, including people such as Konstantinos Kotis, Senior Research Scientist at University of the Aegean, and IT Manager in the regional division of the Samos and Ikaria islands at North Aegean Regional Administration Authority.
Well, but the Semantic Web has been in “its early days” for quite some time now. A decade or more?
And with every proposal, now the Internet of Things, the semantic issues are going to be solved real soon now. But in reality the semantic can gets kicked down the road. Again.
Not that I have a universal semantic solution, different from all the other universal semantic solutions to propose. Mainly because universal semantic solutions fail. (full stop)
Not to mention that selling a business case for an investment now and for the foreseeable future that will pay off, maybe, if someday everyone else adopts the same solution.
I am not an investor or business mogul but that sounds on the risky side to me.
If I were going to invest in a semantic solution, I would want it to have a defined payoff for my enterprise or organization, whether anyone else adopted it or not.
Web accessible identifiers are not a counter-example. Web accessible identifiers work perfectly well in the absence of any universal semantic solution.