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The current Internet of Things (IoT) has made it very convenient to obtain information about a product from a single data node. However, in many industrial applications, information about a single product can be distributed in multiple different data nodes, and aggregating the information from these nodes has become a common task. In this paper, we provide a distributed service-oriented architecture for this task. In this architecture, each manufacturer provides service for their own products, and data nodes keep the information collected by themselves. Semantic technologies are adopted to handle problems of heterogeneity and serve as the foundation to support different applications. Finally, as an example, we illustrate the use of this architecture to solve the problem of product tracing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Internet of Things (IoT) computing paradigm and its variants, such as the Social Internet of Things (SIoT) and the Internet of People (IoP), have enabled the interconnection of billions of devices with existing computing systems like the social networking platforms. Such interconnection allows IoT applications to offer large-scale context-aware services. On the other hand, the pervasive integration of the IoT and the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) have posed many new challenges on the cyber modeling of physical, social and thinking entities. After mapping all the basic elements that form the physical, social and thinking spaces, these elements will be represented in the cyberspace as cyber entities, which are the most elementary particles of the cyberspace. Cybermatics was proposed as a holistic field for the systematic study of cyber entities in the cyberspace and their functions, properties, and conjugations with entities in conventional spaces. In this paper, we emphasize the temporal parts, life cycle and inter-relations of the cyber entities. The potentials of endurance and perdurance cyber mapping are also discussed. Furthermore, a mapping model that incorporates the cyber entity evolution and temporal parts consistency is proposed and presented using a smart home as a use case scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]