Ontology Development for Sensor Networks in the IoT Environment

抄録

In the modern manufacturing facility with many sensors and devices, the way how to integrate and manage heterogeneous data is crucial. Therefore, the task of formal representation and interoperability is a big challenge. In these environments, there are various physical entities which need to be integrated and managed. Internet of Things (IOT) enables a global connectivity between the real entities and the virtual world of entities. Various IoT entities need to be formally and explicitly represented and organized by appropriate abstraction methodologies. Ontology is well suited for formal representation and management. The purpose of this paper is to propose ontology framework for integrating various sensor data in the IoT environment. The workflow in the smart factory facility is modeled using ontology framework. The proposed model is implemented on the Protégé 3.4 platform.