A Web of Things Framework for RESTful Applications and Its Experimentation in a Smart City

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1412-1423

  Paganelli, Federica ^a   Turchi, Stefano ^a   Giuli, Dino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Internet of things (IoT); representational state transfer (REST); sensors; smart city; smart things web; web of things; web services

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); APPLICATION PROGRAMS; INTERNET OF THINGS; MIDDLEWARE; NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION; SENSORS; SMART CITY;

BUILDING APPLICATIONS; DIGITAL REPRESENTATIONS; EUROPEAN PROJECT; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); REPRESENTATIONAL STATE TRANSFER; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SMART THINGS WEB; SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 85012096809     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2014.2354835     Document Type: Article

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