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The Web of Things is applicable to multiple IoT domains, including Smart Home, Industrial, Smart City, Retail, and Health applications, where usage of the W3C WoT standards can simplify the development of IoT systems that combine devices from multiple vendors and ecosystems. During the last charter period of the WoT Working Group several specifications were developed to address requirements for these domains.
This Use Case and Requirements Document is created to collect new IoT use cases from various domains that have been contributed by various stakeholders. These serve as a baseline for identifying requirements for the standardisation work in the W3C WoT groups.
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published the Web of Things (WoT) Architecture and Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description (TD) as official W3C Recommendations in May 2020. These specifications enable easy integration across Internet of Things platforms and applications.
The W3C Web of Thing Architecture [wot-architecture] defines an abstract architecture, the WoT Thing Description [wot-thing-description] defines a format to describes a broad spectrum of very different devices, which may be connected over various protocols.
During the inception phase of the WoT 1.0 specifications in 2017-2018 the WoT IG collected use cases and requirements to enable interoperability of Internet of Things (IoT) services on a worldwide basis. Thes released specifications have been created to address the use cases and requirements for the first version of the WoT specifications, which are documented in https://w3c.github.io/wot/ucr-doc/
The present document gathers and describes new use cases and requirements for future standardisation work in the WoT standard.