DISCOVERY OF INTERNET-OF-THINGS RESOURCES

摘要

A discovery system to discover Internet of Things (IoT) resources for a user includes a user client and a server apparatus. The server apparatus determines the user context and establishes a user requirement specification based on the user context and, if provided, on user requirements articulated by the user via the user client. The server apparatus identifies one or more categories of IoT object that match the user requirement specification and interrogates an IoT-object platform to identify IoT resources that correspond to the identified categories. The server apparatus sends the user client information identifying the IoT resource(s) identified by the IoT-object-platform interface. The disclosure also describes a corresponding discovery method, a server apparatus, a method implemented by the server apparatus, a computer program for execution to implement the user client and a computer-implemented method for implementation in a user device to implement the user client.