Web presence for things through physical mobile interaction techniques

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as another step in the evolution of the Internet we have today and it has gained significant attention from academia and industry. Researches related to RFID, NFC (Near Field Communication) and other pervasive and IoT technologies is increasing, providing ways to make real world connections to the virtual world. Related to IoT, Web of Things (WoT) aims to create things representation on web through HTTP. Real world objects are being tagged with QR Code, NFC tags, and other technologies to provide a web presence of that object with specific URLs. This work raise scenarios where it is also possible to add web presence for non computational things through the usage of general purpose devices (like smartphones or wearables), improving the way users interact with their surroundings. With the proposed mechanism is possible, for example, to tag things virtually on a non intrusive way, without the need to change real environment, recognizing images (like paintings) and locations to associate an URL with detailed information about the identified thing, providing virtual experiences from physical world.