Abstract
W3C Web of Things enables applications to interact with and orchestrate connected Things at the Web scale.
The standardized abstract interaction model exposed by the WoT Thing Description enables applications to
scale and evolve independently of the individual Things.
Many network-level protocols, standards and platforms for connected Things have already been developed, and
have millions of devices deployed in the field today. These standards are converging on a common set of
transport
protocols and transfer layers, but each has peculiar content formats, payload schemas, and data types.
Despite using unique formats and data models, the high-level interactions exposed by most connected things
can be modeled using the Property, Action, and Event interaction affordances of the WoT Thing Description.
Binding Templates (now called just Bindings) enable a Thing Description
to be adapted to a specific protocol, data payload format, and/or
platform that combines both in specific ways.
This is done through additional descriptive vocabularies, Thing Models and examples that aim to guide the
implementors of Things and Consumers alike.
This retired document used to provide information about these bindings. Please read the Status of this
Document section to learn more.
Status of This Document
This is a
preview
Do not attempt to implement this version of the specification. Do not
reference this version as authoritative in any way.
Instead, see
https://w3c.github.io/wot-binding-templates/ for the Editor's draft.
This section describes the status of this
document at the time of its publication. A list of current W3C
publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found
in the
W3C standards and drafts index.
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This document is retired and will not be used for further technical work. However, the contents of
this document will persist in other ways in the future.
While the individual bindings are available in the same GitHub repository, the main document's content
has moved.
Please follow the links below to find the relevant information:
This document was published by the Web of Things Working Group as
an Editor's Draft.
Publication as an Editor's Draft does not
imply endorsement by W3C and its Members.
This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other
documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other
than a work in progress.
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This document is governed by the
18 August 2025 W3C Process Document.