At the International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-07), held in Niagara Falls, Canada, from 21 to 23 May, a paper entitled 'Service-Oriented Device Communications using the Devices Profile for Web Services' was presented during the workshop on Service Oriented Architectures in Converging Networked Environments. The authors of this paper are François Jammes (Schneider Electric), Antoine Mensch (Odonata), Harm Smit (Schneider Electric). The results presented in this paper are used by the SOCRADES project.