How the Web of Things improved the Internet of Things

The essential characteristic of the internet of things is that by concept this makes the things (mart things) manageable, monitored or configured by different interfaces that can be connected to the whole internet, but it is not always the way IoT is seen. This term IoT is commonly used now a days in so many technology, from domestic devices, smartphones, lightbulbs, sensors, security systems, and so on and so for. But certainly as mentioned on the lecture although the internet of things is very useful to connect devices between them it is not the easiest way to do that connection. It is easy to appreciate that the interaction between the different devices must be controlled by something that integrates all of the signals received, this means that every devices communicates to a computer or system by an interfaces that also interacts with the user but this interaction is done in different “languages” (not in the sense of programming language but in the sense that they don’t speak on the same way one from the others). These ‘Languages’ vary depending on the connectivity methods they handle and the protocols they use to transfer their information. Some examples are Bluetooth, ZigBee. The true is that though all of them can be accessed by the final user they should be managed separately from different applications and devices. It means that there are no standards for the communication between smart things, every brand has their own way to do it.  

The idea of handling the manage and control of the devices with WoT depends basically on connecting the Things or devices directly to the Internet, using the standard protocols of the Web or using the standard HTTP requests independently of the way the device is connected to the Internet. This Idea of managing and controlling or monitoring the usage of the Things via Web interfaces is a great idea to easy integrate all of the services that now a days need to be handled separately. 
The importance of developing this kind of initiatives is really high in the sense that, in my opinion, these can be used to simplify and improve the human life and way of living.