ABSTRACT
The scope of Internet of Things (IoT) European Platforms Initiative (IoT-EPI) is to create ecosystems of “Platforms for Connected Smart Objects”, integrating the future generations of devices, embedded systems, network technologies, and other evolving ICT advances. The IoT-EPI program includes the research and innovation consortia that are working together to deliver an IoT extended into a web of platforms for connected devices and objects. This chapter provides a brief overview of key building blocks that underlie the bIoTope ecosystem, namely IoT standards that will be used as interoperability enablers across various IoT platforms, and context-aware services that provide systems with reasoning capabilities that allow them to react appropriately to new situations. Primary goal of bIoTope is to enable companies to easily create new IoT systems and rapidly harness available information using advanced Systems-of-Systems capabilities for Connected Smart Objects.
