Solving IoT challenges with semantic technologies

IoT Challenges and Community Relevance

The application and use of IoT solutions is facing technological, societal and business challenges. Some of the main challenges are:

Connectivity: A heterogeneous landscape of wired and wireless connectivity standards are required to enable different application needs. Some work from our community that addresses this issue is related to adding semantics to IoT in general.
Sensing and monitoring: Innovative ways to sense, observe and deliver information from the physical world to the IoT system.
Information models: Being able to translate the physical world into a format that can be understood and interpreted by the IoT applications. This relates to both existing datasets and streaming data.
Adaptability and scalability: IoT requires a change in the way organizations design and augment their industrial systems. IoT systems must be adaptive and scalable through software or added functionality that integrates with the overall solution.
Flexibility: When developing and deploying an industrial system, it is not enough to simply think about today’s needs or immediate future needs. It is necessary to build on open, integrated hardware and software platforms, to be capable of constantly adapting to changing requirements.

Deadline Extension: June 8th, 2018

About SWIT2018

With this workshop, we aim to discover new ways to embrace the opportunities that semantic web technologies offer in terms of data modeling, integration, processing, and provisioning as well as in terms of developing flexible and intelligent solutions. We want to challenge researchers towards developing integrated description and implementation approaches through both paper submissions and interactive on-site discussion and dialog. In particular, we are looking for description approaches, formal models, implementation solutions, use cases, and applications that support a IoT solutions based on semantic web technologies. See our submission topics for more details.