Interoperability Starts With Describing Things
Explain how metadata and affordances help different IoT platforms understand device capabilities.
If software cannot describe what a thing can do, it can only memorize one integration. The WoT idea The Web of Things architecture uses affordances to describe device interaction. Properties expose state. Actions request operations. Events notify consumers that something happened. Protocol bindings explain how those abstract affordances map to concrete network mechanisms. Why it works This separates meaning from transport. "Current temperature in Celsius" is the product concept. HTTP, MQTT, or CoAP is how a system reaches it. When teams keep those layers separate, they can swap devices, support gateways, and build integrations that survive vendor changes with less…
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