Department of Information Technology, Ghent University/imec, IDLab, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 15, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium.
Aucxis CVBA, Zavelstraat 40, 9190 Stekene, Belgium.
Sensors (Basel). 2018 Jul 3;18(7):2142. doi: 10.3390/s18072142.
As the ideas and technologies behind the Internet of Things (IoT) take root, a vast array of new possibilities and applications is emerging with the significantly increased number of devices connected to the Internet. Moreover, we are also witnessing the fast emergence of location-based services with an abundant number of localization technologies and solutions with varying capabilities and limitations. We believe that, at this moment in time, the successful integration of these two diverse technologies is mutually beneficial and even essential for both fields. IoT is one of the major fields that can benefit from localization services, and so, the integration of localization systems in the IoT ecosystem would enable numerous new IoT applications. Further, the use of standardized IoT architectures, interaction and information models will permit multiple localization systems to communicate and interoperate with each other in order to obtain better context information and resolve positioning errors or conflicts. Therefore, in this work, we investigate the semantic interoperation and integration of positioning systems in order to obtain the full potential of the localization ecosystem in the context of IoT. Additionally, we also validate the proposed design by means of an industrial case study, which targets fully-automated warehouses utilizing location-aware and interconnected IoT products and systems.
随着物联网（IoT）背后的理念和技术不断发展，越来越多的设备连接到互联网，大量新的可能性和应用正在涌现。此外，我们也看到了基于位置的服务的快速发展，各种本地化技术和解决方案层出不穷，其功能和局限性也各不相同。我们相信，在这个时刻，这两种截然不同的技术的成功融合对这两个领域都是互惠互利的，甚至是必要的。物联网是可以从本地化服务中受益的主要领域之一，因此，在物联网生态系统中集成本地化系统将能够实现众多新的物联网应用。此外，使用标准化的物联网架构、交互和信息模型将允许多个本地化系统相互通信和互操作，以获得更好的上下文信息并解决定位错误或冲突。因此，在这项工作中，我们研究了定位系统的语义互操作性和集成，以便在物联网的上下文中充分发挥本地化生态系统的潜力。此外，我们还通过一个工业案例研究来验证所提出的设计，该案例研究针对的是利用位置感知和互联的物联网产品和系统的全自动仓库。
