Introducing the Web Thing Protocol
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The W3C Web Thing Protocol Community Group has published the first draft of the Web Thing Protocol WebSocket sub-protocol, a real-time protocol for monitoring and controlling connected devices over the Web. The community is supportive of this development, seeing it as a key enabling technology for an open ecosystem.
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The Web Thing Protocol provides a WebSocket sub-protocol for monitoring and controlling connected devices over the Web, and I believe could be a key enabling technology for an open ecosystem of IoT web services.