Management platform for data translators supported by semantic annotations

Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) play an important role in systems/devices interoperability in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), allowing the management of the interaction between consumers and producers of a given service. Despite this, when the systems cannot understand each other, it is necessary to create translators that allow their communication. The TAG-Tool is an example of an automatic generation tool for semantic data translators using annotated metadata with concepts from a reference ontology. A management approach is proposed for the use of tools for automatic generation of translators, such as the TAG-Tool, which makes this management more efficient, namely by managing the systems that can be related, thus allowing control over the translators who can be created. This way, it is possible to store created translators, avoid creating them whenever they are requested, as well as use downtime to generate non-existent and obsolete translators. This management is a relevant addition in automating the generation of translators and integration with IoT management systems. A tool was developed to validate the proposed approach.