IoT 2021 – The IoT conference where it all started…
Hi all, It’s this time of the year again: the submission for papers at the 11th International Conference on the Internet of Things is open. We encourage you to submit your WoT papers there as this...
View ArticleTeaching the Web of Things at MIT
The world has changed quite a bit since in 2007 a handful of researchers (yours truly included) got together to talk about the need for working on the application layer of the Internet of Things, aka...
View ArticleWhat is the Web of Things?
Note: this article was first published in the IoT Technica Curiosa magazine. The Internet of Things – IoT for short – is here to stay and to change our world for the better. This grand vision depicts a...
View ArticleOperating Systems for IoT Embedded Systems
This post is an excerpt of the Chapter 4 of “Getting Started with Embedded Systems” in Building the Web of Things, a Manning book by Dominique Guinard and Vlad Trifa. There are two broad categories of...
View ArticleNode.js, GPIO and the Raspberry Pi
This post is an excerpt of the Chapter 4 “Getting Started with Embedded Systems” in Building the Web of Things, a Manning book by Dominique Guinard and Vlad Trifa. In a previous post we talked about...
View ArticleInfluencer Series event at USVP
Hi all, we have a short notice but great opportunity for our Californian followers: an invitation to participate to the next Influencer Series. A high profile evening that will be focused on...
View ArticleSupporting ThingMonk 2016 & IoT Diversity Program
In the early days of the IoT there were a handful of conferences you had to attend every year. Most of these early birds are still in play such as Ubicomp & Pervasive, ACM IoT, RFID Journal Live,...
View ArticleWoT 2016: Seventh International Workshop on the Web of Things
It’s our pleasure to announce the WoT 2016, the seventh edition of the international workshop on the Web of Things. WoT was the first workshop on the topic and where much of the WoT was born, it...
View ArticleNode.js for Embedded Systems
This post is an excerpt of the Chapter 3 of “Node.js for the Web of Things” in “Building the Web of Things“, a Manning book by Dominique Guinard and Vlad Trifa. Long gone are the days when JavaScript...
View ArticleBuilding the Web of Things Book is Out!
December 1oth, 2014 Vlad and I signed a contract with Manning Publications for a book on the Web of Things, a year and 8 month later, we are thrilled to announce that Building the Web of Things is out!...
View ArticleFree book: Using the Web to Build the IoT
As we speak, “Building the Web of Things”, the world’s first Web of Things book, is in preparation to be printed. Since Vlad and I just couldn’t wait idling we decided to embark on another book...
View ArticleWeb of Things vs Internet of Things: 1/2
In this series of articles, excerpted from the first few chapters of our shiny new book: Building the Web of Things, we wanted to clarify what is the difference between the Internet of Things and the...
View ArticleICWE Goes WoT!
As researchers we got to attend a number of computer science and in particular Web conferences. The International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE for the insiders!) was one we particularly enjoyed...
View ArticleWhat’s in HTTP/2 for the Internet of Things? 1/2
If you followed this blog you probably know that the motto of the Web of Things community is to re-use Web protocols to build a truly interoperable Application Layer for the Internet of Things. One of...
View Article6th International Workshop on the Web of Things: WoT 2015
After a successful 5 years anniversary in 2014 it is our pleasure to announce that the International Web of Things workshop (#wot2015) will take place this year again, submissions are now open so hurry...
View ArticleThe Web of Things has a Book!
In 2007, Vlad and I were working at SAP Research on a European project called “SOCRADES” (disclaimer: vintage video content inside, remember this was 2007 :)). The goal of that project was to create a...
View ArticleFirst WoT W3C Interest Group Face to Face Meeting
Note: although this is a summary of the ideas and discussions I was involved in at the WoT W3C IG meeting these are my views and they may not necessarily reflect the views of the W3C WoT IG. A couple...
View Article4 key trends from Sketching In Hardware 2014
Last week we attended the Sketching In Hardware event, a 3-day workshop in Berlin that explored the perceived boundaries of the tech industry, and worked towards figuring out ways to overcome those...
View ArticleWoT 2014: Where WoT People Meet…
“How do you distinguish a WoT thing from a mere IoT thing? Try talking client-side JavaScript to it, if it just stares at you like you used some kind of an unknown language then this isn’t a WoT...
View ArticleThread Group: Q & A
After a recent comment request from the press on the news that The Thread Group have announced a new protocol for connected devices in the home, I thought this would be a good opportunity to share some...
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