Friend Of A Thing is a conceptual ontology for connecting the physical graph to the personal graph for the purpose of resource access control and management. FOAT helps integrate the Internet of Things with the Internet of People

1. Personal Agency on the IoT
● SSN, O&M, and IoT ontologies will connect
things to things and define situations and
context
● FOAT ontology
will connect
people to things
● Concepts to
enable individual
authority through
graph based
identity and
granular resource
access control

2. Personal Object: Personal Agency
on the IoT
● Resource access control based on connecting
the social graph to the physical graph
● The Friend Of A Friend ontology (FOAF)
connects people to people with concepts
describing interpersonal relationships
● Personal Object is a locus of control based on
user identity, which is derived from user's
verifiable social and physical graph connections
● Users control access to to their resources
through semantic links

3. Open Source Platform
for the
Internet of Things
● Smart Object API
● Universal Gateways
● Personal Object
● Personal Cloud