Modelling with AAS and RDF in Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 has proposed the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) model for digital twins. This model should help to solve interoperability issues, a topic that is also addressed by the Semantic Web and its Resource Description Framework (RDF). AAS and RDF-based models have their own strengths. AAS models are easier to integrate with operational...

SAREF4health: IoT standard-based ontology-driven healthcare systems

Recently, a number of ontology-driven healthcare systems have been leveraged by the Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies, which offer opportunities to improve patient monitoring and abnormal situation detection with support of medical wearables and cloud infrastructure. Usually, these systems rely on IoT ontologies to represent sensor data...

Towards IoT platforms' integration: Semantic Translations between W3C SSN and ETSI SAREF

Applying ontologies in the dairy farming domain for big data analysis

In the Dutch SmartDairyFarming project, main dairy industry organizations like FrieslandCampina, AgriFirm and CRV work together on better decision support for the dairy farmer on daily questions around feeding, insemination, calving and milk production processes. This paper is concerned with the inherent semantic interoperability problem in...

Interoperability for smart appliances in the IoT world

Household appliances are set to become highly intelligent, smart and networked devices in the near future. Systematically deployed on the Internet of Things (IoT), they would be able to form complete energy consuming, producing, and managing ecosystems. Smart systems are technically very heterogeneous, and standardized interfaces on a sensor and...

How to keep a reference ontology relevant to the industry: A case study from the smart home

The Smart Appliance REFerence ontology (SAREF) is a shared model of consensus developed in close interaction with the industry to enable semantic interoperability for smart appliances. Smart appliances are intelligent and networked devices that accomplish some household functions, such as cleaning or cooking. This paper focuses on specific...

The federated ontology of the pal project interfacing ontologies and integrating time-dependent data

This paper describes ongoing work carried out in the European project PAL which will support childre in their diabetes self-management as well as assist health professionals and parents involved in the diabete regimen of the child. Here, we will focus on the construction of the PAL ontology which has been assemble from several independently...

An interorganizational IT infrastructure for self-organization in logistics: Situation awareness and real-time chain composition

To meet the challenges for more sustainable, effective and efficient transport services in global logistics, a new IT-paradigm is needed to harvest the opportunities that capabilities for situation awareness and real-time chain composition provide. The iCargo project provides such an advanced, highly distributed, IT infrastructure with, as...

Study on Semantic Assets for Smart Appliances Interoperability : D-S3: THIRD INTERIM REPORT

About two thirds of the energy consumed by buildings originates from the residential sectors and thus household appliances. Household appliances or home appliances are electrical/mechanical machines which accomplish some household functions. Nowadays, appliances are not stand-alone systems anymore. They are often highly intelligent (“smart”) and...

Toward semantic interoperability of energy using and producing appliances in residential environments

About two thirds of the energy consumed in buildings originates household appliances. Nowadays, appliances are often intelligent and networked devices that form complete energy consuming, producing, and managing systems. Reducing energy is therefore a matter of managing and optimizing the energy utilization on a system level. These systems need...

Study on Semantic Assets for Smart Appliances Interoperability : D-S4: FINAL REPORT

About two thirds of the energy consumed in buildings originates from household appliances. Nowadays, appliances are often intelligent and networked devices that form complete energy consuming, producing, and managing systems. Reducing energy consumption is therefore a matter of managing and optimizing the energy utilization on a system level....

Created in Close Interaction with the Industry: The Smart Appliances REFerence (SAREF) Ontology

Around two thirds of the energy consumed by buildings can be traced back to the residential sectors and thus household appliances. Today, most appliances are highly intelligent and networked devices, in principle being able to form complete energy consuming, producing, and managing systems. Reducing the use of energy has therefore become a...

Study on Semantic Assets for Smart Appliances Interoperability : D-S2: SECOND INTERIM REPORT

About two thirds of the energy consumed by buildings originates from the residential sectors and thus household appliances. Household appliances or home appliances are electrical/mechanical machines which accomplish some household functions. Nowadays, appliances are not stand-alone systems anymore. They are often highly intelligent (“smart”) and...

Study on Semantic Assets for Smart Appliances Interoperability : D-S1: FIRST INTERIM REPORT

About two thirds of the energy consumed by buildings originates from the residential sectors and thus household appliances. Household appliances or home appliances are electrical/mechanical machines which accomplish some household functions. Nowadays, appliances are not stand-alone systems anymore. They are often highly intelligent (“smart”) and...

Semantic Interoperability in Body Area Sensor Networks and Applications

Crucial to the success of Body Area Sensor Networks is the flexibility with which stakeholders can share, extend and adapt the system with respect to sensors, data and functionality. The first step is to develop an interoperable platform with explicit interfaces, which takes care of common management tasks. Beyond that, interoperability is...

Contexts for concepts: Information modeling for semantic interoperability

Conceptual information modeling is a well-established practice, aimed at preparing the implementation of information systems, the specification of electronic message formats, and the design of information processes. Today's ever more connected world however poses new challenges for conceptual information models, as different models should enable...