The Spatial Web Standard has been growing in popularity and it looks to bridge the gap between your digital interfaces and the IoT world around you in a more streamlined way.

These protocols (yes there are multiple) help you define the devices around you, their current state and how your digital interfaces or likely AI agentic assistants can interact with them.

It's just a matter of time before your self-driving car can sync up with your garage to automatically open it when it drives you home. Or instead of inferring the state of a traffic light from its front facing camera your smart car will be explicitly told what the state is via something like UDG (Universal Domain Graph).

It’s funny this all reminds me of back in 2013 when I wrote code to trilaterate (Not “Triangulate” but similar) wifi and bluetooth devices around the office and rendered a map of them.

This would add a streamline mechanism for discovering and interacting with the devices I was mapping out.

I would like to thank Rodolfo Ruiz and Gary Savage for putting this on my radar.