“…When we are moving towards the IoT, millions of devices will be interconnected, providing and consuming mass information with different scales and different structures on various networks, for the interoperation of these devices, the service-oriented approach seems to be a promising solution, the IoT infrastructure will be strongly integrated with the environment, and its integration with the enterprise systems will break the boundaries between the business IT systems and the real world, also change the way we design and use devices and services (Spiess et al 2009;Pang et al 2013). Application fields of IoT include smart product management, waste management, intelligent shopping, urban planning, continuous care, sustainable urban environment, smart meters, emergency response, smart events, home automation and so on (Presser et al 2012;Han et al 2012;Liu et al 2012;Pang et al 2012;Zhang and Zhang 2012). Furthermore, some technologies which have been widely used in resource management and environmental science are professional components of IoTs, such as remote sensing, GIS, GPS and etc.…”