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Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
AgrO		Agronomy Ontology				Farming/Agrifood					8
Description: The Agronomy Ontology has been developed to enable the description of agronomic data variables using standard terms. This allows leveraging standards for metadata and data annotation to address the challenges in current ways to manage agronomic data, which are currently collected, described, and stored in inconsistent ways, impeding data comparison, mining, interpretation reuse.
Technical Specification: AgrO Webpage, AgrO Github Page
Ontology URI: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AgriculturalSemantics/agro/master/agro.owl
Maintainer: Aubert Céline						License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Complete Survey Information: AgrO
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
Brick		Brick				Generic IoT (Horizontal)					9
Description: Brick focuses on modelling the entities, relationships and contexts surrounding data sources in buildings. To this end, Brick defines (a) a comprehensive class organization of building equipment spanning multiple subsystems including HVAC, lighting and electrical infrastructure, (b) a set of Point definitions defining the semantics of data sources, (c) a set of object properties (called “relationships” in Brick parlance) that describe how entities are composed into complex systems. The ultimate goal of the ontology is to enable “portable” analytics and control software that accesses a Brick model in order to configure its operation to a particular building environment.
Technical Specification: Brick Specification
Ontology URI: https://brickschema.org/schema/Brick
Maintainer: Brick Consortium Inc. (non-profit membership corporation)						License: BSD 3-Clause
Complete Survey Information: Brick
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
DogOnt		Ontology Modeling for Intelligent Domotic Environments				Generic IoT, Smart Home/Buildings					7
Description: The DogOnt ontology aims at offering a uniform, extensible model for all devices being part of a “local” Internet of Things inside a smart environment. Its major focus is on device modeling, for all the aspects needed to abstract device “capabilities” from low -level idiosyncrasies and communication issues. This enables both abstract reasoning on devices, e.g., to find similar devices or to identify the most suitable output to which forward urgent notifications, and actual integration of different technologies, and paradigms.
Technical Specification: DogOnt Specifiction
Ontology URI: http://elite.polito.it/ontologies/dogont.owl
Maintainer: Luigi De Russis, Politecnico di Torino						License: Apache 2.0
Complete Survey Information: DogOnt
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
EEP		Execution-Executor-Procedure				Smart Home/Building, Energy, Generic IoT (Horizontal)					5
Description: The Execution-Executor-Procedure (EEP) Ontology Design Pattern is aimed at supporting data analysts making queries to discover sensors or actuators that observe or act on a given property of a space.
Technical Specification: EEP Specification
Ontology URI: https://iesnaola.github.io/EEP/ontology/ontology.ttl
Maintainer: Iker Esnaola-Gonzalez, BASF						License: CC BY4.0
Complete Survey Information: EEP
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
EEPSA ontology		Energy Efficiency Prediction Semantic Assistant ontology				Generic IoT, Smart Home/Buildings, Energy					7
Description: The EEPSA ontology is a modular ontology based on ODPs (Ontology Design Patterns) and focused on energy efficiency and thermal comfort in buildings but it is aimed at being reusable and easily customizable for other use cases in similar domains.
Technical Specification: EEPSA Specification
Ontology URI: https://iesnaola.github.io/eepsa/EEPSA/ontology/ontology.xml
Maintainer: Tekniker Research and Technology Centre						License: CC-BY4.0
Complete Survey Information: EEPSA ontology
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
ENVO		Environment Ontology				Farming/AgriFood, Water/Environment					9
Description: ENVO is an expressive, machine-actionable knowledge representation of environmentalentities. Using ENVO to describe things like ecosystems, entire planets and other astronomical bodies, their parts, or environmental processes increases the interoperability of environmental descriptions, helping (meta)data records achieve demonstrable FAIRness.
Technical Specification: ENVO Specification
Ontology URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/envo.owl
Maintainer: ENVO Consortium, Obo Foundry						License: CC0
Complete Survey Information: ENVO
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
ExtruOnt		An RDF/OWL schema for representing an extruder				Generic IoT (Horizontal)					5
Description: ExtruOnt ontology describes a type of manufacturing machine, more precisely, a type that performs an extrusion process (extruder). Although the scope of the ontology is restricted to a concrete domain, it could be used as a model for the development of other ontologies for describing manufacturing machines in Industry 4.0 scenarios.
Technical Specification: ExtruOnt Specification
Ontology URI: http://bdi.si.ehu.es/bdi/ontologies/ExtruOnt/ExtruOnt.owl
Maintainer: Idoia Berges (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)						License: CC-BY4.0
Complete Survey Information: ExtruOnt
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
FIESTA-IoT		Federated Interoperable Semantic IoT/Cloud Testbeds and Applications				Generic IoT (Horizontal)					6
Description: FIESTA-IoT ontology (a unified semantic model) that follows best practices. FIESTA-IoT Ontology is a merge of concepts from various ontologies such as IoT-lite, M3-lite Taxonomy, SSN, Time and DUL.
Technical Specification: Paper: Unified IoT Ontology to Enable Interoperability and Federation of Testbeds (Agarwal et al. WF-IoT 2016), Paper: GDPR-inspired IoT Ontology enabling Semantic Interoperability, Federation of Deployments and Privacy-Preserving Applications
Ontology URI: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fiesta-iot/ontology/master/fiesta-iot.owl
Maintainer: Rachit Agarwal						License: Copyright EU H2020 FIESTA-IoT
Complete Survey Information: FIESTA-IoT
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
FoodOn		Food Ontology				Industry, Health, Farming/AgriFood					9
Description: The need to represent knowledge about food is central to many human activities including agriculture, medicine, food safety inspection, shopping patterns, and sustainable development. FoodOn is an ontology to name all parts of animals and plants which can bear a food role for humans and domesticated animals, as well as derived food products and the processes used to make them.
Technical Specification: FoodOn Specification
Ontology URI: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FoodOntology/foodon/master/foodon.owl
Maintainer: Damion Dooley						License: CC-BY4.0
Complete Survey Information: FoodOn
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
HPOnt		The Heat Pump Ontology (HPOnt)				Smart Home/Building, Energy					6
Description: The Heat Pump Ontology (HPOnt) aims to formalize and represent all the relevant information of Heat Pumps.
Technical Specification: HPOnt Specification
Ontology URI: https://react2020.github.io/REACT-ONTOLOGY/HPOnt/ontology/ontology.ttl
Maintainer: Cristina Aceta, Tekniker						License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
Complete Survey Information: HPOnt
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
Haystack		Project-Haystack.org				Smart Home/Building, Energy, Industry, Cities					9
Description: An Open Source initiative to streamline working with IoT Data We standardize semantic data models and web services with the goal of making it easier to unlock value from the vast quantity of data being generated by the smart devices that permeate our homes, buildings, factories, and cities.
Technical Specification: Haystack Specification, Defs, Protos
Ontology URI: https://project-haystack.org/download/defs.ttl
Maintainer: Project Haystack tax-exempt non-stock corporation						License: Academic Free License 3.0
Complete Survey Information: Haystack
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
iCity TPSO		iCity Transportation Planning Suite of Ontologies				Mobility, Cities					4
Description: The Transportation Planning Suite of Ontologies (TPSO) provides a common set of terms for unambiguously storing and accessing data. The key purpose of the iCity TPSO is to address the challenges of data integration and reuse in the context of transportation planning.
Technical Specification: iCity Specification
Ontology URI: http://ontology.eil.utoronto.ca/icity/UrbanSystem.owl
Maintainer: Megan Katsumi (Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering - University of Toronto)						License: MIT
Complete Survey Information: iCity TPSO
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
ids		International Data Spaces Information Model				Generic IoT (Horizontal)					7
Description: The Information Model is an RDFS/OWL-ontology covering the fundamental concepts of the International Data Spaces (IDS), i.e. the types of digital contents that are exchanged by participants by means of the IDS infrastructure components.
Technical Specification: Namespace, Repository
Ontology URI: https://international-data-spaces-association.github.io/InformationModel/docs/serializations/ontology.rdf
Maintainer: Sebastian Bader (Fraunhofer IAIS), IDSA						License: Apache 2.0
Complete Survey Information: ids
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
IES		GECAD's Intelligent Energy Systems Ontologies				Energy					4
Description: The ontology has been developed for semantic interoperability between agent-based systems within the smart grid and demand flexibility domain.
Technical Specification: IES Ontologies, Quantity Ontology, Angle Ontology, Distance Ontology, Energy Ontology, Impedance Ontology, Power Ontology, Price Ontology, Reactance Ontology, Resistance Ontology, Susceptance Ontology, Temperature Ontology, Voltage Ontology, Consumption Ontology, Production Ontology, Load Flexibility Ontology, Device Ontology, Facility Ontology, Scheduling, Optimization and Forecasting Ontology, ERM Ontology, SHIM Ontology, PLC Ontology
Ontology URI: http://www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt/ontologies/ies/
Maintainer: Tiago Pinto, ISEP (Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto)						License: N/A
Complete Survey Information: IES
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
KIM		KNX Information Model Ontology				Smart Home/Buildings, Industry					6
Description: KNX is an open standard for commercial and domestic building automation. The KNX Information Model Ontology has been designed by KNX Association to allow expressing product and installation data in a well defined ontology.
Technical Specification: KIM Specification
Ontology URI: https://schema.knx.org/2020/ontology/
Maintainer: Andre Hanel, knx.org						License: N/A
Complete Survey Information: KIM
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
LMO		Local Market Ontology				Energy					4
Description: The ontology was developed for the simulation of local electricity markets with complex offers. It imports and extends the Electricity Markets Ontology (EMO). For more information please visit information from GECAD
Technical Specification: N/A
Ontology URI: http://www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt/mdpi/energies/845690/files/onto/local-market.ttl
Maintainer: Gabriel Santos (GECAD - Research Group on Intelligent Engineering and Computing for Advanced Innovation and Development)						License: N/A
Complete Survey Information: LMO
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
M3		M3 (Machine-to-Machine Measurement)				Generic IoT					6
Description: The M3 Ontology references more than 30 sensors, measurements, units and about 10 domains. The M3 ontology is focused on the ssn:ObservationValue concept from the W3C SSN ontology which describes sensors and observations, and related concepts.
Technical Specification: PhD Thesis: Designing Cross-Domain Semantic Web of Things Applications Gyrard 2015
Ontology URI: http://sensormeasurement.appspot.com/m3#
Maintainer: M3 project (2012-2020-onwards)						License: GNU GPLv3 license
Complete Survey Information: M3
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
M3-lite		M3-lite				Generic IoT					6
Description: M3-lite is a lighter taxonomy version of M3 and contains only the taxonomy for various QuantityKinds (commonly known as physical and environmental phenomena), Unit of measurements, different types of sensor and different types of domain of interests. It has evolved based on the specifications and needs from the different IoT testbeds and caters much wider IoT testbed needs.
Technical Specification: Paper: Unified IoT Ontology to Enable Interoperability and Federation of Testbeds Agarwal et al. WF-IoT 2016
Ontology URI: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fiesta-iot/ontology/master/m3-lite.owl
Maintainer: Rachit Agarwal						License: Copyright EU H2020 FIESTA-IoT
Complete Survey Information: M3-lite
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
MFOEM		Emotion Ontology				Health					5
Description: The MFOEM ontology, developed by the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, in collaboration with the University at Buffalo, aims to include all relevant aspects of affective phenomena including their bearers, the different types of emotions, moods, etc., their different parts and dimensions of variation, their facial and vocal expressions, and the role of emotions and affective phenomena in general in influencing human behavior.
Technical Specification: MFOEM Specification
Ontology URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MFOEM.owl
Maintainer: Janna Hastings, UCL - London’s Global University						License: CC-BY3.0
Complete Survey Information: MFOEM
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
MSO		Manufacturing Systems Ontology				Inustry					5
Description: The Manufacturing Systems Ontology (MSO) is a structured representation of the domain of manufacturing systems and logistics systems, based on object-oriented methodology. The modelling method defines the system by addressing four main different aspects s eparately: the physical aspect, the technological aspect, the control aspect and the visualization aspect.
Technical Specification: MSO Specification
Ontology URI: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/enegri/OFM/master/OFM.owl
Maintainer: Elisa Negri, Politecnico di Milano						License: -
Complete Survey Information: MSO
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
PMK		Perception and Manipulation Knowledge				Robotics, Industry					5
Description: Perception and Manipulation knowledge framework (PMK) presents a standardized ontology framework for autonomous robot perception and manipulation, which follows the IEEE standards 1872 of representing knowledge for the robotic domain. Moreover, an inference mechanism for reasoning over the knowledge is included, which enhances the planning of manipulation tasks.
Technical Specification: PMK Specification
Ontology URI: https://sir.upc.edu/projects/ontologies/kb/pmk.owl
Maintainer: Mohammed Diab, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya						License: CC-BY4.0
Complete Survey Information: PMK
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
REACT		The REACT Ontology				Smart Home/Building, Energy					6
Description: The REACT ontology aims to represent all the necessary knowledge to support the achievement of island energy independence through renewable energy generation and storage, a demand response platform, and promoting user engagement in a local energy community.
Technical Specification: REACT Specification
Ontology URI: https://react2020.github.io/REACT-ONTOLOGY/react/ontology/ontology.ttl
Maintainer: Cristina Aceta, Tekniker						License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
Complete Survey Information: REACT
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
SAREF		Smart Applications REFerence Ontology				Generic					6
Description: The Smart Applications REFerence ontology (SAREF) is intended to enable interoperability between solutions from different providers and among various activity sectors in the Internet of Things (IoT), thus contributing to the development of the global digital market.
Technical Specification: SAREF Specification, SAREF Overview, SAREF Overview v3.1.1
Ontology URI: https://saref.etsi.org/core/v3.1.1/saref.ttl
Maintainer: ETSI						License: ETSI Software License
Complete Survey Information: SAREF
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
SAREF4AGRI		SAREF extension for the Smart Agriculture and Food Chain domains				Farming/Agrifood					4
Description: SAREF4AGRI extends the SAREF ontology for the Agricultural domain. SAREF4AGRI currently focuses on two examples, which are the livestock farming and smart irrigation use cases. Various other examples exist in the Smart Agriculture and Food Chain domains, such as arable farming, horticulture, agricultural equipment, greenhouses and food chain. As all the SAREF ontologies, SAREF4AGRI is a dynamic semantic model that is meant to evolve over time.
Technical Specification: SAREF4AGRI Specification, SAREF4AGRI Overview, SAREF4AGRI Overview v1.1.2
Ontology URI: https://saref.etsi.org/saref4agri/v1.1.2/saref4agri.ttl
Maintainer: ETSI						License: ETSI Software License
Complete Survey Information: SAREF4AGRI
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
SAREF4AUTO		SAREF extension for the for the Automotive domain				Mobility					4
Description: SAREF4AUTO is an OWL-DL ontology that extends SAREF for the Automotive domain. SAREF4AUTO currently focuses on three examples, which are the “Platooning”, “Automated Valet Parking (AVP)” and “Vehicle environment with Vulnerable Road Users (VRU)” use cases. Various other examples exist in the Automotive domain. As all the SAREF ontologies, SAREF4AUTO is a dynamic semantic model that is meant to evolve over time.
Technical Specification: SAREF4AUTO Specification, SAREF4AUTO Overview, SAREF4AUTO Overview v1.1.1
Ontology URI: https://saref.etsi.org/saref4auto/v1.1.1/saref4auto.ttl
Maintainer: ETSI						License: ETSI Software License
Complete Survey Information: SAREF4AUTO
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
SAREF4BLDG		SAREF extension for the building domain				Smart Home / Building					6
Description: The SAREF4BLDG is an extension of the SAREF ontology that was created based on the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) standard for building information, specifically focusing on the part of the standard related to devices and appliances within the building domain.
Technical Specification: ETSI Technical Specification (v1.1.2), SAREF4BLDG Overview, SAREF4BLDG Overview v1.1.2
Ontology URI: https://saref.etsi.org/saref4bldg/v1.1.2/saref4bldg.ttl
Maintainer: ETSI						License: ETSI Software License
Complete Survey Information: SAREF4BLDG
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
SAREF4CITY		SAREF extension for smart cities				Cities					6
Description: The present document is a technical specification of SAREF4CITY, an extension of SAREF for the Smart Cities domain. This extension has been created by investigating resources from potential stakeholders of the ontology, such as standardization bodies (e.g., Open Geospatial Consortium), associations (e.g., Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces), IoT platforms (e.g., FIWARE) and European projects and initiatives (e.g., ISA2 programme).
Technical Specification: ETSI Technical Specification (v1.1.2), SAREF4CITY Overview, SAREF4CITY Overview v1.1.2
Ontology URI: https://saref.etsi.org/saref4city/v1.1.2/saref4city.ttl
Maintainer: ETSI						License: ETSI Software License
Complete Survey Information: SAREF4CITY
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
SAREF4EHAW		SAREF extension for e-health and aging well				Health					4
Description: SAREF4EHAW is an extension of SAREF for the eHealth/Ageing-well domains. It has been specified and formalised by investigating EHAW domain related resources, such as: potential stakeholders, standardization initiatives, alliances/associations, European projects, EC directives, existing ontologies, and data repositories.
Technical Specification: ETSI Technical Specification (v1.1.1), SAREF4EHAW Overview, SAREF4EHAW Overview v1.1.1
Ontology URI: https://saref.etsi.org/saref4ehaw/v1.1.1/saref4ehaw.ttl
Maintainer: ETSI						License: ETSI Software License
Complete Survey Information: SAREF4EHAW
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
SAREF4ENER		SAREF extension for the Energy domain				Energy					6
Description: SAREF4ENER is an extension of SAREF that describes energy flexibility that customers can offer to the Smart Grid to manage their smart home devices by means of a Customer Energy Manager (CEM), which is a logical function for optimizing energy consumption and/or production that can reside either in the home gateway or in the cloud. Energy flexibility is expressed in SAREF4ENER in terms of power profiles exposed by devices to the CEM.
Technical Specification: ETSI Technical Specification (v1.1.2), SAREF4ENER Overview, SAREF4ENER Overview v1.1.2
Ontology URI: https://saref.etsi.org/saref4ener/v1.1.2/saref4ener.ttl
Maintainer: ETSI						License: ETSI Software License
Complete Survey Information: SAREF4ENER
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
SAREF4ENVI		Smart SAREF extension for the environment domain				Environment / Water					6
Description: SAREF4ENVI is an extension of SAREF for the environment domain. The extension was created in collaboration with domain experts in the field of light pollution currently working in the STARS4ALL European H2020 project.
Technical Specification: ETSI Technical Specification (v1.1.2), SAREF4ENVI Overview, SAREF4ENVI Overview v1.1.2
Ontology URI: https://saref.etsi.org/saref4envi/v1.1.2/saref4envi.ttl
Maintainer: ETSI						License: ETSI Software License
Complete Survey Information: SAREF4ENVI
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
SAREF4INMA		SAREF extension for the Industry and Manufacturing Domains				Industry					5
Description: SAREF4INMA extends SAREF for the industry and manufacturing domain to solve the lack of interoperability between various types of production equipment that produce items in a factory and, once outside the factory, between different organizations in the value chain to uniquely track back the produced items to the corresponding production equipment, batches, material and precise time in which they were manufactured.
Technical Specification: ETSI Technical Specification (v1.1.2), SAREF4INMA Overview, SAREF4INMA Overview v1.1.2
Ontology URI: https://saref.etsi.org/saref4inma/v1.1.2/saref4inma.ttl
Maintainer: ETSI						License: ETSI Software License
Complete Survey Information: SAREF4INMA
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
SAREF4WATR		SAREF extension for the water domain				Water / Environment					6
Description: SAREF4WATR is an extension of SAREF, which is based on a limited set of use cases and from available existing data models. This work has been developed in the context of the STF 566, which was established with the goal to create SAREF extensions for the domains of automotive, eHealth and ageing well, wearables, and water.
Technical Specification: ETSI Technical Specification (v1.1.1), SAREF4WATR Overview, SAREF4WATR Overview 1.1.1
Ontology URI: https://saref.etsi.org/saref4watr/v1.1.1/saref4watr.ttl
Maintainer: ETSI						License: ETSI Software License
Complete Survey Information: SAREF4WATR
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
TD		Thing Description Ontology				Generic IoT					7
Description: The TD ontology is being developed within the W3C Web of Things Working Group. It is one of the concrete representations of the TD model, one of the building blocks of the Web of Things (WoT).
Technical Specification: Thing Description Specification
Ontology URI: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/w3c/wot-thing-description/main/ontology/td.ttl
Maintainer: W3C WoT working group						License: -
Complete Survey Information: TD
Acronym		Name				Main Areas					TRL
VSSo		The Vehicle Signal Specification Ontology				Mobility					4
Description: VSSo is a car signal ontology that derives from the automotive standard VSS, and that follows the Semantic Sensor Network (SSN)/Sensor, Observation, Sample, and Actuator (SOSA) pattern for representing observations and actuations.
Technical Specification: VSSO Specification
Ontology URI: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/w3c/vsso/gh-pages/spec/vsso-core.ttl
Maintainer: W3C Community						License: CC 4.0 License
Complete Survey Information: VSSo

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