Research on the ontology-based collaborative description model of IoT resources

Abstract

Researches of collaboration of the internet of things (IoT) resources so far have been limited to a certain aspect. This paper describes the features of similar IoT resources and relationships of different IoT resources to reflect synchronous and sequential relations of the collaborative system. An ontology construction method is first proposed according to the features of IoT resources, the domain ontology method and the seven-step ontology method. Based on our proposed ontology construction method, we establish a collaboration model to describe the IoT resource ontology. Then the model is tested by Protege software. A case study of intelligent inventory management system is finally conducted. We share the knowledge of the general collaboration of IoT resources to improve its general collaboration level by establishing the ontology-based collaborative description model of IoT resources.