Introducing the World Object Web

Introducing the World Object Web – WOW
by Prof. Anthony Furness, technical co-ordinator, CASAGRAS project

CASAGRAS has seen the importance of considering the integration of the Internet of Things with the developing Internet.

As a consequence it sees a parallel between the World Wide Web and the need for a World Wide Web of Objects, a World Object Web – or WOW.

Through project work package developments with respect to global identification, a scheme has been identified that can exploit global resolution to identify various legacy identification schemes using URLs and EPC, ISBN numbers and so forth. We now see the opportunity to introduce an equivalent to the URL with respect to a new domain, or set of domains, that come under a working title of the World Object Web (WOW).

Such an approach gives rise to the potential for independent federated sites that exploit the connection of objects in networks and non-network form into service structures that can support a wide range of applications at local domestic level, company level, national level, European level and international level.

The opportunity is there to determine what sort of applications there might be that embrace not just RFID but further Edge Technologies and the identification of all sorts of objects within the physical world.

We are now looking for YOUR thoughts on what these applications might be; how this World Object Web might evolve; how it might be governed and how it might link even better with the established World Wide Web and the Internet.

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