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IoT is an emerging concept that involves a larger and larger number of heterogeneous smart everyday-life objects. They enable a large scope of new applications that require all these objects to communicate, to interact, and to share data and processes. All these objects have popped up from there to there, using their own communication means, OS or language, resulting in a jeopardized ecosystem in which different solutions are often isolated and non-interoperable. A key open issue to realize the full capacity of the IoT is thus interoperability. After some market consolidation happening mostly between 2011 and 2013, IoT products are now hitting the market across all segments: consumer (wearables, home automation), commercial (HVAC, parking), and industrial (industrial process control, supervision).

Often driven by the fear to “fall behind,” small and large companies push their engineering teams to productize …