The presentation deals with how Smart Objects can become Socail Objects in the IoT

1. From “Smart Objects”
to “Social Objects”:
The Next Evolutionary Step of the
Internet of Things
BY
MOHAMMED RASHID HUSSAIN
1604-13-742-006

2. Outline
 Abstract
 Introduction
 Literature Survey
 Proposed System
 Setup and Results
 Future Work
 Conclusion
 References
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3. Abstract
 Boom in technological objects like smartphones, wearable tech etc. in past decade
 The result is a networking paradigm known as, The Internet of Things(IoT)
 In IoT, all that is real becomes virtual
 Why not the same for our technological objects?
 Can objects interact with each other and extract
services from other objects?
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4. Introduction – Basic Definitions
 Internet of Things
 Uniquely identifiable objects and their virtual representation in an Internet like structure.
 Smart Objects
 Objects that act in a “smart” way by providing certain services and information
 Social Objects
 Objects that interact with other such “smart” objects
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5. Introduction
 Are there new potentials that smart objects are still expected to manifest?
 Can smart objects allow everything to be encompassed in a fully connected network?
 The above two questions can be answered.
 New type of Social Objects:
 That interact with other objects autonomously
 That crawl the IoT to discover services & information in a trust-oriented way
 That are able to advertise their presence to other smart objects
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6. Introduction – Categories of Objects in IoT
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Res Sapiens
(Smart Objects)
Res Socialis
(Social Objects)
Res Agens
(Active Objects)
• Increased interoperability with external systems
• Capability to communicate in Human Social Networks
• Capability of building their own social network
• Proficiency in building added-value complex services through
collaboration in the object social network
• Awareness of the Environment
• Interactivity with the surrounding environment
• Pseudo-social behavior with neighbors
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7. Literature Survey – Stages of Smart Objects
 In current scenario, high level of fragmentation exists in how res sapiens communicate with
each other
 In order for them to communicate, web protocols and communication paradigms are
being designed
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Intranet of
Things
WoT
Interoperable
Objects
Social WoT
Multi-Social
WoT
Web Language & APIs Objects visible in SN
Web Platforms for Objects
Objects visible in more SN in parallel
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8. Literature Survey – Stages of Smart Objects
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 The Web of Things(WoT) was the first innovative step taken
 Allowed to integrate existing web protocols into smart objects
 Currently uses the REpresentational State Transfer(REST) APIs
 Applications can be created using standard web languages and tools
 Currently IoT is being integrated into the Internet of Services
 Still the WoT paradigm has limits due to difficulties in advertising, discovering, accessing other
objects
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9.  Proper digital representational of smart objects in the virtual world
 Accounting for relationships between objects
 Methodology to crawl the Internet and find objects in order to exploit them
 Technological solutions to autonomously sense other objects & exchange information
 Analysis of Relational Graph
 How do you analyze the relational networks between social objects?
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Literature Survey – Current Open Research Issues
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10.  Architecture Based problems
 How to devise a multi-technology platform architecture to cope with smart objects?
 Communication Based Problems
 How to accommodate broadcast models like unicast, broadcast, multicast and anycast?
 Has to decide whether a node is to be included in the travel path based on relationship to source
 The proposed methodology should deal with security-based trust issues
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Literature Survey – Current Open Research Issues
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11. Why is there a need for forming a
social network between the
objects?
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Literature Survey
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Proposed System
From Smart Objects
to Social Objects

13. Practical Setup & Results
 Embodied Microblogging(EM) was the first step in realizing Social WoT
 Mediates human-to-human communication
 Support additional ways for making noticeable and noticing activities in everyday life
 Platforms have been established
 Toyota Friend
 Nike+
 Xively
 Evrything
 Microsoft SensorMap
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14. Practical Setup & Results – Toyota Friend
 Features
 Uses Salesforce Chatter to communicate between cars
 Minimal Interaction between things
 Has a Clear Business/Application Case
 Proprietary System for development of apps
 No autonomous relationship establishment
 Objectives
 Improve customer service
 Build virtual community to increase customer loyalty
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15. Practical Setup & Results – Nike+
 Features
 Minimal Interaction between things
 Has a Clear Business/Application Case
 Proprietary System for development of apps
 No autonomous relationship establishment
 Objectives
 Increase fidelity to the Nike brand
 Posts data from shoes to private social network
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16. Practical Setup & Results – Xively
 Features
 Wide Interaction between things
 Open System for development of apps
 No autonomous relationship establishment
 Unspecified Business/Application Case
 Scalable
 Mobile
 Objectives
 Support connection, use, sharing of things, services to
create new WoT applications
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17. Practical Setup & Results – Evrything
 Features
 Wide Interaction between things
 Open System for development of apps
 Autonomous relationship establishment
 Unspecified Business/Application Case
 Objective
 Provide each object with unique Active Digital Identity(ADI)
 Provide access to ADI using URL
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18. Practical Setup & Results – Microsoft Sensor Maps
 Microsoft established a sensor map across the globe
 Allows collection from the sensors worldwide and identify patterns of behavior of users
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19. Future Work
 Objects can have Res Socialis features like
 Find Service Providers
 Publish information
 Evaluate trustworthiness
 Get Filtered Information
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20. Conclusion
 Identified stages of Smart Objects
 Stage I – Objects post about their state in SN of humans
 Stage II – Objects can interact with humans at application layer(Current)
 Stage III – Objects socially interact with other objects to build social networks with humans and other
humans
 Object interaction is increasing and in the future in 2020, around 20 billion objects will be
connected
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21. References
 M.R. Schurgot, C. Comaniciu, and K. Jaffres Runser, “Beyond Traditional DTN Routing: Social
Networks for Opportunistic Communication,” IEEE Commun. Mag., July 2012.
 G. Kortuem, F. Kawsar, D. Fitton, V. Sundramoorthy, “Smart Objects as Building Blocks for the
Internet of Things,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 14, no 1, 2010, pp. 44–51.
 J. He et al., “A Smart Web Service Based on the Context of things,” ACM Trans. Internet
Technology, vol. 11, no. 3, 2012.
 D. Guinard, M. Fischer, and V. Trifa, “Sharing Using Social Networks in A Composable Web of
Things,” Proc. IEEE PERCOM 2010, Mar.–Apr. 2010.
 Xively – www.xively.com
 Nike+ - www.nikeplus.nike.com
 Evrything – www.everything.com
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22. THANK YOU!!!
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