Internet of future enabling social network of things

Abstract

Advances in the areas of embedded systems, computing, and networking are leading to an infrastructure composed of millions of heterogeneous devices and services. These devices will not simply convey information but process it in transit, connect peer to peer, and form advanced collaborations. This "Internet of Things" infrastructure must have the interoperability of solution at the communication level, as well as at the service level, has to be ensured across various platforms [1].In this paper we investigate on the potential of combining social and technical networks to collaboratively provide services to both human users and technical systems supported by the Internet of Future (IoF). In the Internet of Things (IoT), things talk and exchange information to realize the vision of future pervasive computing environments. The common physical and social space emerges by the objects' ability to interconnect, not only amongst themselves, but also with the human beings living and working in them. This paper intends to present an architecture and its application. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.