Position paper on realizing smart products : challenges for semantic web technologies
Marta Sabou, Julia Kantorovitch, Andriy Nikolov, Andrew A. Tokmakoff, Xiaoming Zhou, Enrico Motta · Open Research Online (The Open University) · 2009
Abstract. In the rapidly developing space of novel technologies that combine sensing and semantic technologies, research on smart products has the potential of establishing a research field in itself. In this paper, we synthesize existing work in this area in order to define and characterize smart products. We then reflect on a set of challenges that semantic technologies are likely to face in this domain. Finally, in order to initiate discussion in the workshop, we sketch an initial comparison of smart products and semantic sensor networks from the perspective of knowledge technologies. 1