Towards an ontology development for automated applications in smart city environment of SmartME project

Cities are becoming everyday smarter, with an increasing multitude of electronic nodes distributed throughout the territory. These range from rather simple ones, such as sensors/actuators, but also smartphones, to more complex ones, such as data centers and workstations. Citizens may have a central role in consuming, but also producing the data. The consequence of all this is that the amount of data collected is enormous and these data need to be properly processed in order to make the most of them. Unfortunately, there are several challenges in data processing, but exploiting the Semantic Web technologies and linking data among them is the right way to face them. This paper introduces the SmartME project developed by the University of Messina, Italy, and discusses the technologies and approached that cat be utilized to properly manage the collected data. In this paper, we are working towards the incorporation of semantic layer with the SmartME project of University of Messina. In this, our contribution is to built logic for maintaining sensors and their collected information query them in more meaningful way for getting accurate results. Also, we have presented a way of modifying a previously developed Ontology, SSN and customized it for our purpose. Other than manual entry of a new sensor, which mitigates the burden of manual entry. To build up this logic, we have exploited Jena API of Semantic Web in Java.