Use of “semantic approaches” : for a switch from existing EDI to « Any-to-Any communication » in the Internet of Things (and extending the current “semantic web”)
By Philippe GAUTIER on Wednesday 25 June 2008, 11:07 - Web 3.0 / Internet of Things - Permalink
Intrinsically, the Internet of Things will be « non deterministic », complex
and various although, so far, the ongoing standardization models (eg :
EPCGlobal) are still apprehending deterministic value chains or
processes.....
In such an environment, the use of Semantic approaches will, possibly, give a
“meaning” to every kind of message and will accordingly facilitate
communications whoever will be the actors, even though they have no prior
interchange agreement.
Intrinsically, the Internet of
Things will be « non
deterministic », complex and
various.
Actually, the emerging technologies and concepts (sometimes “standards”) that
currently makes it up will accordingly lead soon to both :
- generalization of data exchange (often unstructured) and ….
- …. massive and heterogeneous
data storage amongst many kind of actors on the Internet, considering most
of those actors will likely not have any prior electronic relationships to each
other.
So far, the ongoing standardization models (eg : EPCGlobal) are still apprehending deterministic value chains or
processes even though some probabilistic approaches (eg : BRIDGE project - http://www.bridge-project.eu/) are intending to extend the scope of
available means to address complex issues such as lookup services (Discovery Services, IETF-ESDS, etc).
Actually, both “B-to-B”, “B-to-C” or “structured EDI” schemes are still the
underlying framework in many cases.
However, through inherent nature, the Internet of things will be made of
heterogeneity, diversity, exceptions and
subsidiarity.
Therefore, the existing syntaxic methods (eg : structured EDI) will not be
sufficient to give anyone sufficient capability to communicate, exchange or
interoperate with any other one over this “Internet” (“anyone” can be objects,
web services, HMI, etc.).
In such an environment, the use of Semantic approaches will, possibly,
give a “meaning” to every kind of message and will accordingly facilitate
communications whoever will be the actors, even though they have no prior
interchange agreement.
Next generation of EDI systems could therefore be
based on technologies similar to “Text mining”
instead of existing schemes (ODETTE, EANCOM, etc).
Last, but not least, it will help as well to avoid any mono-model approaches that creates
monopolies such as the existing ones….
Philippe GAUTIER, june 2008
Comments
Hi,
I read your insights with interest. I've started a little private project under the heading Work 4.0: How will we work (in Western Europe) in, say 2012-2015, when al the work in mass production and mass services have disappeared to other countries? I am primarily looking to knowledge management issues and the web. Can you comment on work in the age of the internet of things: what will the working environment of the individual knowledge worker look like? What must companies do to work together with these (teams of) individual knowledge workers? How do these knowlegde workers work together?