The Web of Things Ecosystem

The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem is gradually changing our activities and social interactions through the wide scale of applications it offers. However, these applications rely on the networking protocol stack where the application layer of the stack is implemented differently by different applications. As a result, a variety of data representation and diverse application layer protocols can be found in place adopted by a range of IoT-based services. This creates the issue of interoperability and scalability. Web of Things is a concept that interestingly applies the Web technologies to IoT-based applications. This chapter introduces the concept of the Web of Things, reviews its application potential, and discusses the details of forming such an ecosystem.