About Real Time Web
Real Time Web (RTW) is an effort to give the web a native sense of the present. Today’s connected devices sit in isolation, locked to proprietary clouds, and the web itself was built to store and link documents — a rich model for the past, but no shared model for what is happening right now.
RTW closes that gap. It treats live state — a sensor’s latest reading, a robot’s position, an agent’s intent — as first-class, addressable resources on the open web, so any device, service, or AI agent can read and act on the present without a custom integration built for every pairing.
What RTW stands for
- Open
- Anyone can implement it. RTW is a shared way of working, not a platform to buy into.
- Addressable
- Every thing and every stream has a web-native address — a now-URI — the way every document has a URL.
- Real-time
- The present is a first-class value: state can be read, subscribed to, and acted on as it changes.
- Vendor-neutral
- A sensor, a robot, and an AI agent from three different makers can work together without bespoke glue.
An open initiative
RTW is developed in the open as a standard rather than a product. It is meant to be built by many hands — device makers, platform teams, and agent developers — none of whom should have to own the entire stack. If you’re working on connected devices or AI agents and want the present to be as linkable as the past, the project welcomes early implementers and contributors.
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Real Time Web is the infrastructure of the Real-Time Web – and the tools to build on it. A living web where machines can join, learn, act, and collaborate.