Sensing Network Element Ontology Description Model for Internet of Things

Internet of Things (IOT) is usually complicated and heterogeneous, in which the different sensor networks are difficult to interconnect each other, and leads to that the efficient sharing and reusing of resource is difficult to implement. Aiming at this problem, a sensing network element ontology description model for internet of thing has been proposed in this paper, in which semantics and ontology technologies are used to describe the sensing device and its capability in internet of things. Firstly, a general sensing network element ontology description framework has been built, then the primary classes and their hierarchy have been defined, and the concepts and their relationships are described. Moreover, as an emphasis, those modules and relationships which are directly related to sensor module are built. Our works will provide the semantics for sensing devices and sensory data, by which sensing network elements in internet of things can be automatically discovered and interacted.