Design and embodiment of web of things platform

Enormous efforts to build ubiquitous computing environment are made by connecting smart things, which are gradually increasing in real world, with network. The existing mode to build in the type of proprietary and tightly-coupled systems requires plenty of costs and time. Also, alteration of the already built system's structure is difficult. This paper proposes the Web of Things (WoT) platform to build ubiquitous computing environment. The proposed WoT platform enables to reduce costs required for building ubiquitous computing environment through the standardization of access to various smart things and control mechanism. The WoT platform also enables non-experts to easily build ubiquitous environment. To verify the effectiveness of the WoT platform, this paper develops a WoT platform prototype and carries out performance evaluation on the functional access to smart things. © 2014 SERSC.