“Wireless sensor network” seems to be a stale terminology!
“Web of things”, “Internet of things”, “pervasive computing” are more trendy to describe this idea to hook up inanimate objects together, make them communicate, plug them to the web.
From now on, I will use the terminology “Pervasive Web” to describe this intent and this wonderful opportunity to push further the Internet frontier.
Out there, Web 3.0 is also a terminology that gets more and more momentum. It brings more confusion than clarity since web 3.0 can apply to various technologies – semantic web being one of them…and I don’t see any bridge between semantic and pervasive yet.
Another selling point to use “Pervasive Web” is the different working group trying to expose sensors as RESTful API ( check out the great Web of Things blog )…..this is exactly I’ve been implementing for month…stay tuned!
hi! I’m not so sure about the pervasive web term, because it suggests the idea that it’s more about surfing the web with all kinds of devices (very much like hey guys we can access the net from my mobile phone or pda, awesome), rather than use the web to exchange data between things, which is more what the web of things is about!
my 2 cents on terminology
Cheers,
Vlad
Thanks for your comment…I tend to agree with you..”Web Of things” is quite precise to describe how things can interact with each other using the web…
However, “Web Of Things” sounds like things will be using another kind of web, somehow separate.
What I like about “Pervasive Web” is that it pinpoints that our well-known internet will interweave its web to reach our surrounding objects…
Puzzled I am, let me juggle with both terms for now! But somehow you convinced me!
Cheers!