Publications

This page collects publications about the W3C Web of Things. See our policy document for curation details.

Articles and Press Releases

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Publication	Type	Publisher	Date
W3C Web of Things (WoT) support in Azure IoT Operations	Blog Post	Microsoft	April 2026
Siemens enters collaboration with Microsoft to enhance IoT interoperability for buildings	Press Release	Siemens	July 2025
Standardization of digital twin languages (page 56, WoT-related)	Article	Industrial Ethernet Book Media	July 2024
Siemens and Microsoft to converge Digital Twin Definition Language with W3C Thing Description Standard	Press Release	Siemens	April 2024
Open W3C standard for IoT: Web of Things 1.1 specifications published	Blog Post	Oracle	March 2024
Asset Interfaces Description Announcement	Social Media Post	IDTA	February 2024
Enhanced Web of Things connects diverse IoT ecosystems	Press Release	W3C	December 2023
How the W3C Web of Things brings JSON Schema to the Internet of Things	Blog Post	JSON Schema	November 2022
(DE) WoT's up IoT - Schnelle IoT-Anwendungsentwicklung mit W3C Web of Things	News	Heise Medien	August 2021
(DE) IoT: Smartes Edge Device sucht Kontakte	News	Siemens AG	June 2020
Solution for Interoperability - W3C Web of Things (WoT)	Press Release	W3C	April 2020
W3C and OPCF to integrate OPC-UA into the Web of Things	Press Release	OPC Foundation	April 2016

Research Papers

All research papers related to the WoT with a DOI number are accepted to this list. Please create an issue to add your paper.

Title	Authors	Type	Publisher	Date
Internet of Things: A comprehensive survey on syntactic and semantic interoperability for effective inter-entity communication	Mario San Emeterio de la Parte, José-Fernán Martínez-Ortega, Yiting Wang, Sara Lana Serrano	Journal Article	Elsevier BV	1 July 2026
WoT-Server: Combining the Web-Of-Things and SensorThings standards to build an IoT platform	Joel Aumedes, Xavier Celades, Josep Pijuan, Robert Sanfeliu	Journal Article	The Open Journal	7 April 2026
Vendor-Independent Data Platform Architecture in Smart Buildings	Kazushi Matsukura, Kentaro Noda, Yuki Hashimoto, Haruki Ishimaru, Manato Fujimoto, Shingo Ata	Proceedings Article	IEEE	9 January 2026
Methodologies in digital twin for manufacturing industry: A systematic literature review	Gabriel Aznar Lapuente, Paula Morella Avinzano, Maria Pilar Lamban Castillo, Dammika Seneviratne	Journal Article	Elsevier BV	1 January 2026
Cyberlogic: A Foundational Framework for Cross-Space Logic in the Cyber-Physical-Social-Thinking Hyperspace	Huansheng Ning, Lei Zhou, Jifar Wakuma Ayana, Shan Cui, Mahmoud Daneshmand, Jianguo Ding	Journal Article	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)	1 January 2026
The Arrowhead Framework Ontology	Oskar Wintercorn, Jan van Deventer	Journal Article	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)	1 January 2026
RobWoTAR: Web of Things Approach to Universally Control Robots in Augmented Reality	Roman Binkert, Abdullah Al-Hatem, Fady Salama, Ege Korkan, Sebastian Käbisch, Sebastian Steinhorst	Proceedings Article	ACM	18 November 2025
Asynchronous Thing Descriptions for Crafting Applications in the Web of Things	Manousos Boliotis, Aimilios Tzavaras, Chrisa Tsinaraki, Euripides G.M. Petrakis	Proceedings Article	IEEE	3 November 2025
From Fragmentation to Integration: A Framework for Heterogeneous IoT-based Smart City Systems	Tiago A. Amorim, João Carlos N. Bittencourt, Daniel G. Costa, Paulo Portugal	Proceedings Article	IEEE	9 September 2025
Skill-Based Multi-Agent Systems for Building Control Using KNX IoT and Web of Things	Gernot Steindl, Thomas Rapberger, Christoph Gehbauer	Proceedings Article	IEEE	9 September 2025
Proximity-based service discovery for distributed digital twin systems	Kurt Rothermel, Otthein Herzog, Siegfried Wu Zhiqiang	Journal Article	Springer Science and Business Media LLC	20 February 2025
Leveraging Information-Centric Edge Computing in Private 5G Cellular Networks via the W3C Web of Things	Jan Romann, Hugo Hakim Damer, T M Rayhan Gias, Olaf Bergmann	Proceedings Article	IEEE	10 January 2025
RetroWoT: A Method to Integrate Brownfield Devices in the Web of Things	Rene Dorsch, Michael Freund, Kiara Marnitt Ascencion Arevalo, Andreas Harth	Proceedings Article	ACM	19 November 2024
HoloWoT: A First Step Towards Mixed Reality Digital Twins for the Industrial Internet of Things	Fady Salama, Idil Sezgin, Ege Korkan, Sebastian Käbisch, Sebastian Steinhorst	Proceedings Article	ACM	22 September 2024
Stateful-WoT: Capturing the Behavior of Highly Dynamic Cyber-Physical Systems	Fady Salama, Ege Korkan, Sebastian Käbisch, Sebastian Steinhorst	Proceedings Article	IEEE	29 July 2024
DTAG: A Methodology for Aggregating Digital Twins Using the WoTDT Ontology	Salvador González-Gerpe, María Poveda-Villalón, Raúl García-Castro	Journal Article	MDPI AG	8 July 2024
Decentralized Authentication for Web of Things: a Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)-Based Solution	Biagio Boi, Christian Esposito	Proceedings Article	IEEE	19 February 2024
Machine component monitoring in data and service ecosystems enabled by the Asset Administration Shell	Viktor Berchtenbreiter, Tizian Schröder, Fabian Gast, Oliver Kohn, Melanie Stolze, Matthias Weigold	Journal Article	Elsevier BV	1 January 2024
WoT2Pod: An Architecture enabling an Edge-to-Cloud Continuum	Michael Freund, Justus Fries, Rene Dorsch, Peter Schiller, Andreas Harth	Proceedings Article	ACM	7 November 2023
RobWoT: Generating Real-Time Digital Twin Simulations for the Robotic Web of Things	Fady Salama, Zucheng Han, Ege Korkan, Sebastian KäEbisch, Sebastian Steinhorst	Proceedings Article	IEEE	12 October 2023
Increasing Interoperability between Digital Twin Standards and Specifications: Transformation of DTDL to AAS	Carlos Schmidt, Friedrich Volz, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Gerhard Sutschet	Journal Article	MDPI AG	7 September 2023
Overview and Comparison of Asset Information Model Standards	Torben Miny, Michael Thies, Lina Lukic, Sebastian Käbisch, Kazeem Oladipupo, Christian Diedrich, Tobias Kleinert	Journal Article	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)	1 January 2023