Internet of Things and the Open Source Approach Towards Smart Cultural Objects

Abstract

The topics of smart things and Internet of Things (IoT) is a recent technological trend that has many application fields, particularly in terms of Information and Communication technologies (ICT)-enabled benefits for society (e.g., smart cities, mobility, active and healthy ageing). The term IoT refers to a world-wide network of interconnected objects uniquely addressable based on standard communication protocols. The paper is a report on the work in progress in implementing IoT topics in order to create a smart cultural object as a physical object (e.g., a piece of a museum collection) transformed in a virtual object capable of sensing and processing capabilities and source and recipient of different web-based information. The project design and its steps together with the description of the first phases consisting in choosing technologies as part of the open source hardware and software environment to realize the smart cultural object are described.