The anatomy of a large scale social web for internet enabled objects

Abstract

The ongoing evolution of the Internet of Things toward the Web of Things, where Web-enabled smart objects connect and communicate using the protocols of the Web, has raised several research issues from protocols adoption and communication models to architectural styles. In this paper we present our vision about the anatomy of a scalable architecture for a large scale social Web of Things for smart objects and the solutions adopted. Main faced issues include a reasoned exploration of design choices in conjunction with the related state-of-art analysis, technologies, concepts and social aspects behind our proposed solution. Among them, a prototype is proposed and two experimented scenarios are described. Finally, this paper reports the conclusion, challenges and future works toward the evolution of our social Web of Things architecture and tool.