The Web of Things Vision: Things as a Service and Interaction Patterns

This paper presents our vision of the Web of Things, where real world objects and cloud services interact through the web. In this prospect, mechanisms to embody object-as-a-service, along with novel navigation and interaction paradigms are needed to enable common physical objects in the surroundings to be considered as new stakeholders in traditional web applications. (C) 2011 Alcatel-Lucent.