WikiServe: Using Wikipedia to Match IoT based Services for Situation Response

A large number of smart devices are being deployed with the swift development of Internet of Things (IoT). These devices, owned by different organizations, have a wide variety of services to offer. During a natural disaster, relevant IoT services can be extremely useful. However, appropriate service matching methods are required to find the relevant services. Organizations that manage situation responses and organizations that provide IoT services are likely to be independent of each other, therefore it is difficult for them to adopt a common ontological model to facilitate the service matching. In this paper, we address this problem and propose a new approach called WikiServe to identify IoT services that are functionally relevant to a given situation. Using concepts or terms from situation and service descriptions, WikiServe employs Wikipedia as a knowledge source to bridge the conceptual gap between situation and service descriptions and match functionally relevant IoT services. WikiServe performs better than a Word2Vec based method in terms of Precision and Recall for service matching.