This document summarizes the history and development of the Web of Things (WoT) workshop series over the past 5 years. It discusses how the concept of applying web technologies to connect physical objects emerged in 2006-2008. The first WoT workshop was held in 2010 and discussed early research applying REST and JSON to embedded devices and sensors. Subsequent workshops in 2011-2014 saw increasing attendance, submission and acceptance of papers. The workshops have helped establish the WoT concept and community with over 80 papers presented. Standardization efforts are now underway at the W3C to develop best practices for the WoT.

1. 7 October, 2014
Dominique Guinard
Co-founder of the WoT Workshop Series
5 Years of WoT Workshops
Looking back looking forward

2. Best Paper Award
@ WoT 2014
Gérôme Bovet, Antonio Ridi and Jean Hennebert:
Virtual Things for Machine Learning Applications

3. The Genesis

4. 2006: An Application Layer for the IoT?
• The IoT is getting
big
• Yet, no application
layer
• DPWS, Upnp, etc.

5. 2007-2008: The Web as the Application Layer for the IoT
• Wait how about the
Web?
• It did help the
Internet to
become useful in
a simple manner
• “Putting Things to
REST”, Erik Wilde
• “Towards the Web of
Things”, Dave
Raggett @ IoT 2008
• Webofthings.com
opens, WoT
Whitepaper, Vlad
Trifa & Dom Guinard

6. Web of Things
How applications connect
with things
How things connect to
the internet
Internet of Things
§ OSI Layer 7 +
§ REST, JSON
§ Social networks,
semantics
§ Mashups
§ OSI Layer 4 –
§ EPC,
IPv6lowpan,
WiFi, Zigbee,
BLE, etc.
“Application
architecture for physical
objects”
“Uniquely identifiable
objects and their virtual
representations in an
Internet-like structure”

7. Reaction of the WSN / Ubicomp Community
Yeah thanks but,
no thanks!

9. 2009: The WSN / Ubicomp Community starts thinking about it again
• Working with
embedded devices
requires a PhD in
CS…
• Researchers start
thinking about the
Web seriously…
• “Our results show that Web service requests can be
completed well below one second and with a low
power consumption, even in a multi-hop setting.”,
Dunkels et al. http://bit.ly/1tjxskD
• “Towards the Web of Things: Web Mashups for
Embedded Devices.”, Dominique Guinard, Vlad Trifa
http://bit.ly/wot-paper
• More publications like the WoT architecture
followed:http://www.webofthings.org/publications/

10. Looking Back
@ the WoT Workshop Series

11. WoT 2010 http://www.webofthings.org/wot/2010
• “Architecture and Protocols for the
Internet of Things: A Case Study”,
Angelo P. Castellani, et. Al
• “Early Lessons from Building
Sensor.Network: an Open Data
Exchange for the Web of Things”,
Vipul Gupta, et. Al
• “Sharing Using Social Networks in a
Composable Social Web of Things”,
Dominique Guinard
• Towards a REST-style Architecture
for Networked Vehicles and Sensors,
José Pinto

12. And at the same time, outside WoT…

13. WoT 2011
• “Providing user support in Web-of-
Things enabled Smart Spaces”,
Mathieu Boussard et. Al
• “Connecting Things to the Web
using Programmable Low-power
WiFi Modules”, Benedikt Ostermaier
et. Al
• “A Network Architecture for the Web
of Things”, Vipul Gupta et. Al
• “The Anatomy of a Large Scale
Social Web for Internet Enabled
Objects”, Antonio Pintus et. Al

14. And at the same time, outside WoT…

15. WoT 2012: http://www.webofthings.org/wot/2012
• “WoTKit: A Lightweight Toolkit for
the Web of Things”, Michael
Blackstock, et Al
• “A Computational Space for the Web
of Things”, Simon Mayer, et Al
• “RESTful Triple Spaces of Things” ,
Aitor Gómez-Goiri, et Al

16. And at the same time, outside WoT…

17. WoT 2013: http://www.webofthings.org/wot/2013
• “CoAP for the Web of Things: From
Tiny Resource-constrained Devices
to the Web Browser”, Matthias
Kovatsch et Al.
• Offering Web-of-Things Connectivity
to Building Networks, Gérôme Bovet
et Al.
• COMPOSE: Enabling an open
marketplace of services for the
Internet of Things, Charalampos
Doukas et Al.

18. WoT 2014
http://www.webofthings.org/wot/2014

19. 5 Years, 83 Papers
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Submited
Accepted
Main conferences
started to have
WoT tracks

20. The Crew: Thanks!
• The Organisers:
• Simon Mayer
• Vlad Trifa
• Erik Wilde
• Dave Raggett
• Me J (Dominique Guinard)
• The PC:
Rosa Alarcon
Michael Blackstock
Olivier Boissier
Aitor Gómez-Goiri
Dominique Guinard
Jean Hennebert
Gerd Kortuem
Matthias Kovatsch
Rodger Lea
Olivier Liechti
Marino Linaje
Diego López-De-Ipiña
Friedemann Mattern
Simon Mayer
Florian Michahelles
Jacques Pasquier
Cesare Pautasso
Dave Raggett
David Resseguie
Till Riedel
Andreas Ruppen
Vlad Trifa
Inaki Vazquez
Erik Wilde

21. Looking Forward

22. A Few Interesting Things happening in the Web of Things…

23. A Few Interesting Things happening in the Web of Things…
• WoT 2015
• Standardization & Best Practices:
• Web of Things W3C Interest Group
• http://www.w3.org/2014/09/wot-ig-charter.html
• WoT Label
• http://webofthings.org

24. Thanks for the great community!
7 October, 2014
Dom Guinard @domguinard
Co-founder of the WoT Workshop Series
CTO @ EVRTHNG – http://evrthng.com