SNS of Things: Concept, issues, and challenges for globe scale interoperability of IoT applications

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) has been getting interest during the past several years due to the diverse application areas. The providers of IoT applications carefully design the devices and the applications and deploy the system in the field. Such applications are running on their own. However, due to the high cost of development and deployment of the IoT applications, there have been efforts to provide interoperability among different IoT applications. In this paper, we propose the concept of SNS of Things (SNSoT), which is a platform that acts as a SNS among the things in the Internet. Thus, all the data generated by the devices are considered as updates of the devices and the dissemination of the update is based on the social relationship among the devices. Our system, SNSoT, provides a framework in which the devices can create social neighbor relationships among the devices and exchange their data through the social networks. We carefully identify the necessary components of the framework and discuss the issues and challenges of SNSoT.