Social Networks and Internet of Things, an Overview of the SITAC Project

Abstract

Two of the most promising paradigms for the next decade are the Social Networks (SN) and Internet of Things (IoT). The challenge will be enabling autonomous interaction among humans and devices when these two paradigms converge. The ITEA2 SITAC project proposes to undertake the challenge of creating a unifying architecture and ‘ecosystem’ comprising platforms, tools and methodologies that enable the seamless connection and cooperation of many types of network-connected entities, whether systems, machines, devices or humans with personal devices. Beyond the state of the art challenges on big data management, management of large number of number of entities and advanced context management are specific role of the SITAC proposed unified architecture. In this scope is also described in detail a project a use case, the Intouch, which is an energy aware clustering application for social networking applications, scope of the Portuguese partnership within the project.