SWIT 2018 - 3RD WORKSHOP ON SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE IOT

Current developments on the Internet are characterised by the wider use of network-enabled devices, such as sensors, mobile phones, and wearables that serve as data providers or actuators, in the context of client applications. Even though real-life objects can finally participate in integrated scenarios, the use of individual and specific interaction mechanisms and data models lead to realising isolated islands of connected devices or to custom solutions that are not reusable. To this end, the vision of the Internet of Things is to leverage Internet standards in order to interconnect all types of embedded devices (e.g. patient monitors, medical sensors, congestion monitoring devices, traffic-light controls, temperature sensors, etc.) and real-world objects, and thus to make them a part of the Internet and provide overall interoperability. Therefore, IoT aims to build a future of connected devices that is truly open, flexible, and scalable. The SWIT (Semantic Web technologies for the IoT) workshop aims to contribute towards achieving this goal by exploring how existing well-established Semantic Web Technologies can be used to solve some of the challenges that the IoT currently faces. The focus of the workshop is on solving IoT challenges with Semantic Web Technologies, and providing added-value services and applications.