Abstract
The integration of the physical world into the digital world is an important requirement for a Future Internet, as an increasing number of services and applications are relying on real world information and interaction capabilities. Sensor and actuator networks (SAN) are the current means of interacting with the real world although most of the current deployments represent closed vertically integrated solutions. In this paper we present an architecture that enables efficient integration of these heterogeneous and distributed SAN islands into a homogeneous framework for real world information and interactions, contributing to a horizontal reuse of the deployed infrastructure across a variety of application domains. We present the main concepts, their relationships and the proposed real world resource based architecture. Finally, we outline an initial implementation of the architecture based on the current Internet and web technologies.