On Physical Web models

TL;DR

This paper reviews various models of the Physical Web, focusing on object identification, enumeration, navigation, and data access, highlighting challenges and potential solutions for integrating physical objects into web environments.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of existing Physical Web models, discussing their approaches to object identification, enumeration, and interaction, and addresses related challenges.

Findings

Different models use various identification methods

Enumeration and navigation are key challenges

Data retrieval methods vary across models

Abstract

The Physical Web is a generic term describes interconnection of physical objects and web. The Physical Web lets present physical objects in a web. There are different ways to do that and we will discuss them in our paper. Usually, the web presentation for a physical object could be implemented with the help of mobile devices. The basic idea behind the Physical Web is to navigate and control physical objects in the world surrounding mobile devices with the help of web technologies. Of course, there are different ways to identify and enumerate physical objects. In this paper, we describe the existing models as well as related challenges. In our analysis, we will target objects enumeration and navigation as well as data retrieving and programming for the Physical Web.