W3C held a workshop on the Web of Things in Berlin on 25-26 June 2014, hosted by Siemens. The Web of Things is expected to have broad and sweeping economic and societal impact. Open standards will be critical to enabling exponential growth of the kind we experienced with the early days of the Web.

COMPOSE (Collaborative Open Market to Place Objects at your Service) will create an ecosystem for unleashing the power of the Internet of Things (IoT) via an easy transformation to an Internet of Services (IoS). The technology developed by the project will enable the creation of base services, composite services, and applications stemming from and operating on smart objects.