W3C

WoT Use Cases

3 August 2021

Attendees

Present
David_Ezell, Ege_Korkan, Fady_Salama, Jack_Dickinson, Kaz_Ashimura, Michael_Lagally, Tetsushi_Matsuda, Tomoaki_Mizushima
Regrets
McCool, Sebastian
Chair
Lagally
Scribe
Ege, kaz

Meeting minutes

Agenda

<kaz> Agenda for today

Connexxus IoT WG Update

David: TDs are useful in retail domain to describe devices for requirements and also commonality
… also allows to address devices with many interfaces
… we cannot push our wishes on the device manufactureres
… TDs should make their lives easier

Jack: we have slidedeck which we can share later
… it is about the updates from 2021 from WG
… use cases, user stories

Lagally: are you aware of IPR

Kaz: jack is member so I'd assume he knows about IPR

Jack: I am in a volunteer. I help with the IoT efforts

Jack: we are trying to promote iot concepts to our industry through different events, like connexxus 365
… we have NACS event where many convenience store representatives attend most of the time
… the main goal is developing an API and also an IoT platform
… it was difficult to find use cases
… but we have taken a step back now we have user stories
… they also talk about stakeholders
… like security access, asset management, also facility people who care about maintenance as well
… these user stories can be handed out to customers to understand common problems and benefits
… we also see that there is a segmentation between indoor and outdoor (this should be before the previous message)

Jack: user story helps us
… develop use cases
… focused on door sensors, temperature sensors, ...
… base use case is targeted at on/off or specific temperature

Jack: we have started with basic concepts like on/off and temperature

David: we are in a market where the retailers want to sell something, they don't want us to explain how it works
… finding specific sensors: leave it to the retailers

Jack: we picked 3 use cases from indoor and outdoor
… (actual picked use cases are on slide 11)

<kaz> [[

<kaz> * indoor focus on temp and doors

<kaz> * outdoor focus on safety, security, customer facing items

<kaz> * building basic properties, actions and events

<kaz> ]]

David: also it is really nice that you have a dedicated marketing call, we should have one too

<kaz> use case template

Kaz: It would be better to discuss this after putting at least an initial version on the use case template

ECHONET Contribution

<kaz> PR 139 - use case proposal by ECHONET Consortium

<kaz> Rendered Markdown

Matsuda: (presenting use case leaving and coming home)

Matsuda: devices are connected to the manufacturer's server through a home gateway
… user can use a service provider that is connected to the manufacturer server
… the user can change the operating modes of devices
… (slide (3) has steps of exactly what happens in a sequence)

Lagally: so you have a server at home as a gateway

Matsuda: the device manufacturer's server is on the Internet. the blackbox on the left side within the home is a home gateway.

Lagally: the devices have an ECHONET description?

Matsuda: ECHONET description is not machine readable

Lagally: so device manufacturer does bridging of ECHONET lite to ECHONET lite web API

Matsuda: controlling a group of devices seems to be a gap

Kaz: we should understand what kind of data is transferred, e.g., which part uses which data model and protocol (probably, the device user's home and device manufacturer's server are included in the Echonet world, and the service provider's server A and the smartphone are included in the WoT world). Regarding this PR 139 itself, let's merge it and continue further discussion based on it, e.g., the scenario and data transfer.

Lagally: that is indeed a good idea
… a reference device for ECHONET

Ege: we need information on the arrow as what protocol is used there

Ege: I think it is a gap in WoT, not in TD, a way to describe how interactions from a bunch of Things can be done

Matsuda: btw, I had problem with uploading the figure.

Kaz: should be able to add it using pullrequest but please send it via email. I'll add it to the repo directly.

Minutes

<kaz> July-27

Lagally: approved

[adjourned]

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 131 (Sat Apr 24 15:23:43 2021 UTC).