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Discovery and the Web of Things
W3C is part of the EU research project webinos, and an early deliverable is a demo for how to enable web page scripts to discover local devices and services via the local area network, Bluetooth and USB. The demo involves a JavaScript object that allows you to invoke a variety of discovery services (multicast DNS, SSDP, SLP, Bluetooth and USB). These call back to methods on the object with information on each device/service they discover.
Discovery is the first step in enabling web applications that span all kinds of devices. This is the Web of Things in which web technologies provide a simplifying overlay network model that hides unnecessary details of interconnect protocols and intervening firewalls/NATs. We are now working on extending the demo to automatically identify, locate and install the drivers for a requested service, subject of course to user approval. The demo is available as open source under the Apache2 license, but is currently limited to Linux based systems.
Filed by Dave Raggett on April 12, 2011 11:20 AM in Mobile, Technology, Web Applications
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cool. this would be nice to verify a hardware printer and also a extra monitor to display photo`s or a two page layout.