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Just now, Nicholas said:
You make a really interesting comparison with the world wide web. What can we learn from the work being done by the World Wide Web Consortium on the Web of Things related to data and interoperability for IoT please?
We were heavily inspired by the work of the W3C (as Simon mentions in the intro to the talk, the ODI and the W3C share a founder, among many connections). We used some of those standards in our prototyping too – so in one way, you can see the web of things as a big part of the technical/protocol infrastructure for the web of twins.
One significant distinction however: I generally see the “web of things” as an approach where devices / assets can be connected directly. The big insight in our research about “web of twins” is that direct connections to the assets will often not be possible, or desirable for many reasons (security being one). That is why it is important to think about connections at differerent levels – collaboration on registers and identifiers, or pooling and sharing of insights.