The process of interlinking devices, people and their physical environment poses many challenges for inter-operability and compositionality. Information technology standards are all around us but the problem of interoperability persists from hospitals to defense systems. Many have advocated the use of ontologies as a means to mediate between and among devices similar to the efforts in domains such as gene-ontology, parts of medicine and other domains.

However, we need to understand what role ontologies are expected to play in IOT, how are standards in information technology created, and how they may shed light on the approaches to addressing the issue of standardization in ontology. Does standardization take place in fragments and is it possible for them to be put together? If not what are the approaches that would could overcome some of the consequences of development and use of ontologies?