Uploaded November 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
The internet and the world wide web have been driven by and benefited from open and widely-accepted standards. Every web site servers documents using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, allowing a single web browser to explore the entire web. Unfortunately, the nascent Internet of Things is not as open or well-standardized. Vendors sell competing IoT technologies with no cross-device standardization. This leaves consumers with the equivalent of multiple remote controls: one app to control my home security system, another to control my music player, and so on. Google’s vision of the physical web is trying to encourage IoT devices to leverage existing web standards.
Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).
Part of the internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.
The internet and the world wide web have been driven by and benefited from open and widely-accepted standards. Every web site servers documents using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, allowing a single web browser to explore the entire web. Unfortunately, the nascent Internet of Things is not as open or well-standardized. Vendors sell competing IoT technologies with no cross-device standardization. This leaves consumers with the equivalent of multiple remote controls: one app to control my home security system, another to control my music player, and so on. Google’s vision of the physical web is trying to encourage IoT devices to leverage existing web standards.
Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).
Part of the internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.
