Use WoT affordance vocabulary to describe device capabilities independently from transport details.
Property What is a WoT property? A readable or writable state of a thing, such as temperature, occupancy count, battery level, or target brightness. Strong properties include units, data type, read/write behavior, and freshness expectations. Action What is a WoT action? An operation a consumer can request the thing to perform, such as calibrate, unlock, reboot, or set a schedule. Actions usually need clearer authorization than read-only properties because they change state. Property vs event When is something a property rather than an event? Many devices expose both: state for current view, events for change history. Objection The API docs…
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