The Internet Of Things (IoT) has been a buzzword for the past decade. While IoT focuses on getting devices connected to the global Internet and other existing networks with new novel communication medias and protocols Web Of Things (WoT), a sidekick of the IoT, is recycling the current web development patterns and tools to integrate everyday objects to the existing World Wide Web. In WoT the idea is to realize the IoT concept using the current web standards and practices. In order to do so WoT uses the REST architectural style implemented on top of the HTTP already in use all over the Internet.
The WoT concept can be taken a step further to allow the communications over other protocol stacks than the traditional TCP. By implementing the HTTP client and server components so that they don't directly operate the underlying transport protocol but instead use an abstraction layer between, we are able to switch the whole protocol stack without making any changes to the actual software logic that is built on top of the components. A device designed to be controlled over Ethernet can be for example be managed over any number of compliant media such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and serial port communications.
