Social Internet of Things: vision, challenges, and trends

Internet of things: Vision, applications and research challenges

1570-8705/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2012.02.016 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +39 0461 40 84 00; fa E-mail addresses: daniele.miorandi@create-ne [email protected] (S. Sicari), francesco.dep org (F. De Pellegrini), [email protected] The term ‘‘Internet-of-Things’’ is used as an umbrella keyword for covering various aspects relat...

Internet of Things: Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunities

The Internet of things can be defined as to make the “things” belong to the Internet. However, many wonder if the current Internet can support such a challenge. For this and other reasons, hundreds of worldwide initiatives to redesign the Internet are underway. This article discusses the perspectives, challenges and opportunities behind a future Internet that fully supports the “things”, as wel...

Things That Twitter: Social Networks and the Internet of Things

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. 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 onl...

Enabling the Social Internet of Things and Social Cloud

The Internet of Things - A survey of topics and trends

The Internet of Things is a paradigm where everyday objects can be equipped with identifying, sensing, networking and processing capabilities that will allow them to communicate with one another and with other devices and services over the Internet to accomplish some objective. Ultimately, IoT devices will be ubiquitous, context-aware and will enable ambient intelligence. This article reports o...