Blog Entries

Through symbIoTe we have observed the IoT standardization landscape for the last two years with the goal of understanding which standards can be useful in our design decisions, or which standard developing organization (SDO) was working on our same research topics. While we found many valuable contributions that helped us in our API design and even in […]

SymbIoTe builds on IoT platform federation. In this blog post we aim to clarify our Bartering functionalities used to empower the IoT federations. symbIoTe offers an IoT interoperability middleware, where, through its various components, it provides services and functionalities for IoT platforms to interact and offer more valuable services to the end users. The goal […]

symbIoTe builds an IoT interoperability middleware, it is not yet another IoT platform. In fact, symbIoTe components (the SymbioteCore, the SymbioteCloud and the SymbioteSmartSpace) never store any sensor data nor take over the management of IoT devices from existing platforms: they rather offer interoperability and mediation services on top of existing IoT platforms. In this blogpost, we introduce a […]

symbIoTe offers a mediation framework, powerful core services, semantic interoperability, security by design and a common API system that allow SMEs and new entrants in the IoT domain to build innovative IoT applications within short development life-cycles.   symbIoTe can significantly simplify the development of cross-platform IoT applications. Our project aims at creating an interoperable mediation […]

By making symbIoTe-enabled Smart Devices , device manufacturers can expose IoT resources to any third-party application. With SymbIoTe resources will be visible under the Smart Space and can be used together with resources from other IoT platforms, in a way that the wider use is ensured and roaming becomes truly possible and devices can be  tracked and […]

Currently more and more resources are accessible to be exploited by entrepreneurs, start-ups, and companies, or everyone who is interested in adding value over IoT devices. However, the range of protocols and the way to describe and share resources with other organisations is currently complex and time consuming, which is one of the major problems […]

By making their IoT platforms symbIoTe enabled, the IoT platform providers can expose their resources to third party applications. Their resources will be searchable through symbIoTe Core Services and able to be used together with resources from other IoT platforms. In such a way platform providers ensure a wider usage of their resources in the IoT ecosystem. This blog […]

With growing number of IoT devices, often of low computing power, we observe increased security risk in our environment. Wireless sensors and actuators (devices that invoke actions in the physical world according to the signals received through an ICT network) that dominate IoT environments, often have holes through which malicious hackers can break into conventional […]

With the IoT becoming a reality, IT infrastructures and software systems get more and more complex while the need for their interoperability intensifies. Interoperability spreads broadly over different IoT systems, layers and IoT-related sectors. For example, there are industries that request for or even need to enhance the information flow along their production value chain […]

This blog entry introduces concepts and requirements for platforms to become symbIoTe-enabled (“symbIoTe Level 1 Compliance”) and is relevant to the symbIoTe 1st Open Call applicants. Interoperability is an important IoT topic, not only in academic circles where semantic interoperability has been a hot topic in the last couple of years, but also for standardization […]