An open virtual neighbourhood network to connect IoT infrastructures and smart objects — Vicinity: IoT enables interoperability as a service
Yajuan Guan, Juan C. Vásquez, Josep Maria Guerrero, Natalie Samovich, Stefan Vanya, Viktor Oravec, Raúl García‐Castro, Fernando Serena, María Poveda‐Villalón, Carna Radojicic, Christopher Heinz, Christoph Grimm, Athanasios Tryferidis, Dimitrios K. Tzovaras, Keith Dickerson, Marek Paralič, Marek Skokan, Tomáš Sabol · 2017
The lack of interoperability is considered as the most important barrier to achieve the global integration of Internet-of-Things (IoT) ecosystems across borders of different disciplines, vendors and standards. Indeed, the current IoT landscape consists of a large set of isolated islands that do not constitute a real Internet, preventing the exploitation of the huge potential expected by Information and communications technology (ICT) visionaries and unfolding business opportunities facilitated by digitalization and automation. The VICINITY project will build and demonstrate a platform linking various ecosystems providing “interoperability as a service” for infrastructures in the IoT. The approach is bottom-up, decentralized, user-centric and standards-based without relying on a single standard.