Physical Markup Language

Description

"The Physical Markup Language (PML) is proposed as a general, standard means for describing physical objects and environments for industrial, commercial and consumer applications. Given the broad scope of this vision, PML is crafted to allow modularity and flexibility.

The objective of PML is a simple, general language for describing physical objects for use in monitoring and control of a physical environment - particularly through the Internet. Applications include inventory tracking, automatic transaction, supply chain management, machine control and object-to-object communication.

Our approach has been to develop a set of standard components that span the breadth of application together with an extension mechanism allowing customization within vertical industries." (http://web.mit.edu/mecheng/pml/overview.htm)