The web of things vision: Things as a service and interaction patterns
Benoît Christophe, Matthieu Boussard, Monique Lu, Alain Pastor, Vincent Toubiana · Bell Labs Technical Journal · 2011
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.