WebOfThings

Goals

Exploring the role of the Web amidst the explosion of connected devices and services in our lives.

Projects & Current Activity

• Chirimen - Firefox OS microcontroller board
• FlyWeb - Framework for direct device connections

Recent and Upcoming Events

• Web of Things planning and strategy workshop, Sept 2015
• MozFest
• Mozlando

Participate

• IRC
• Slack

Platform

Web Platform

Some of the Web platform APIs relevant to IoT development. Comprehensive list at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI.

Category	API	Documentation
Network	TCPSocket
Network	UDPSocket
Connectivity	Bluetooth
Connectivity	NFC
Connectivity	Wifi
Sensors	Ambient Light
Sensors	Proximity
Sensors	Orientation
Sensors	Motion
Sensors	Geolocation
Media	Camera
Media	Microphone
Misc	PowerManagement
Misc	BatteryStatus
Misc	Vibration
Nascent	WebUSB
Nascent	WebGPIO

Related Activity

People & Projects

JavaScript projects/toolkits/libraries

• Sensible
• Octoblue
• CylonJS
• Intel XDK IoT Edition
• Internet of Things Database - Semantics for the Internet of Things
• IOTDB Node library
• Pubsub for Things
• Physical Web - URLs for Things
• Node Red - Visual Connector
• Avahi - mDNS service broadcast

Hardware

Hardware that supports a JavaScript (but necessarily Web) programming interface.

• RaspberryPi
• Tessel
• Kinoma Create (and Studio)
• Espruino
• NinjaBlocks
• Arduino
• Spark Core + Spark OS
• KDDI Open Web Board
• APC

Services

• WoT.io
• yeelink (cn)

Industry Groups / Standards Bodies

TODO: Convert this into a table, and categorize which part of the the stack the group's standards address, and where it might intersect with Web standards and technologies.

• W3C Web Of Things Interest Group link
  • Mozilla participants: (TODO: list people here, with contact info)
• AllSeen/AllJoyn - Qualcomm led, with Linux Foundation, Cisco, Microsoft, LG, and HTC. AllJoyn is name of protocol. link
• Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) - Intel, Atmel, Dell, Broadcom, Samsung, and Wind River. Openly competing with AllJoyn. link
• Thread Group - Google/Nest. link
• ITU's IoT-GSI - The UN's International Telecommunication Union's Internet of Things Global Standards Initiative. link
• IEEE IoT Standards link
• Industrial Internet Consortium - Intel, Cisco, AT&T, GE, and IBM. Focused on industrial stds. link
• OneM2M - Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung, many more. "Cross sector" architecture and stds. link
• Open Mobile Alliance - Intel, Qualcomm, Microsoft, ATT, ARM, Cisco, and Samsung. link
• Apple HomeKit - link

Government

• Smart America - Global City Teams Challenge

Events

• ThingsCon - Berlin, May 2015 link

Event Calendars

• http://www.iotevents.org/
• http://iotinternetofthingsconference.com/iot-events/

In The Wild

Relevant implementations of IoT standards.

• NTT Docomo's open Web API for Vusix smart glasses, using OMA's Generic Open Terminal API.
  • press release
  • NTT Docomo's code on Github