Aligning Smart and Control Entities in the IoT

In our latest work, the problem of semantic interoperability for interconnected and semantically coordinated smart/control entities in a Semantic Web of Things has been explicated and a framework for Semantic Smart Gateways (SSGF) has been proposed. This paper aims to report on a proof-of-concept implementation of the core component of this framework which is the automatic alignment of smart/control entities’ semantic descriptions. More specific, the paper reports on a recent approach towards implementing a configurable, multilingual and synthesis-based ontology alignment tool that has been evaluated by the SEALS and OAEI initiatives.