Abstract
W3C Web of
Things enables applications to interact with and orchestrate
connected Things at the Web scale. The standardized abstract
interaction model exposed by the WoT Thing Description enables
applications to scale and evolve independently of the
individual Things.
Many network-level protocols, standards and platforms for
connected Things have already been developed, and have millions
of devices deployed in the field today. These standards are
converging on a common set of transport protocols and transfer
layers, but each has peculiar content formats, payload schemas,
and data types.
Despite using unique formats and data models, the high-level
interactions exposed by most connected things can be modeled
using the Property, Action, and Event interaction affordances
of the WoT Thing Description.
Binding Templates (now called just Bindings) enable a Thing
Description to be adapted to a specific protocol, data payload
format, and/or platform that combines both in specific ways.
This is done through additional descriptive vocabularies, Thing
Models and examples that aim to guide the implementors of
Things and Consumers alike.
This retired document used to provide information about
these bindings. Please read the Status of this Document section
to learn more.
Status of This Document
This section describes the status of this document at
the time of its publication. A list of current W3C publications and the
latest revision of this technical report can be found in the
W3C standards and drafts
index.
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This document is retired and will not be used for further
technical work. However, the contents of this document will
persist in other ways in the future. While the individual
bindings are available in the same GitHub repository, the
main document's content has moved. Please follow the links
below to find the relevant information:
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