Home // International Journal On Advances in Internet Technology, volume 13, numbers 1 and 2, 2020 // View article
Authors:
Antonios Pliatsios
Christos Goumopoulos
Konstantinos Kotis
Keywords: Review; Internet of Things; Interoperability; IoT frameworks; Ontologies; Semantic Social Network of Things
Abstract:
The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm advocates the massive use of sensing and communication technologies embedded in the physical world, which provides the potential to collect huge volumes of data and connect them to intelligent systems. As the number of IoT devices is increasing with geometric progress, ensuring interoperability and handling of the big heterogeneous data they generate is of major importance for the development of smart applications and services. In this context, a systematic review of contemporary IoT frameworks based on a multi-level interoperability consideration is performed and findings are critically discussed. Challenges and open issues that emerge in this research area are pointed out, and research opportunities and insights are suggested. Motivated by the shortcomings of the current solutions to support open, interoperable, intelligent and collaborative IoT environments, the concept of Semantic Social Network of Things (SSNT) is introduced. SSNT specifies the integration of device-to-device collaborative services which semantically enable heterogeneous objects to (socially) interact and participate in communities of smart objects. By establishing social relationships and taking collaborative actions, such communities can support users to achieve their goals. A middleware-based framework architecture is presented to enact the SSNT abstraction, and a proof-of-concept application in the smart agriculture domain is outlined to demonstrate important features of this approach.
Pages: 46 to 64
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2020. Used with permission.
Publication date: June 30, 2020
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2652