IoPT: A Concept of Internet of Perception-aware Things

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is undergoing remarkable technological innovation, it is expected uncountable number of IoT devices will be installed everywhere and enrich our daily life in near future. There is a technical challenge that is the physically accurate data does not always match the “experience” of people, because the “perception” of people will be easily biased by various stimulations from surrounding environments. This paper presents a concept of Internet of Perception-aware Things (IoPT), which aims to fill the gap in perception between IoT and human. Through the case study targeting subjective crowdedness, we have confirmed perception data have huge deviations though there are correlations between sensor data and perception data, and perception will be biased due to the environmental conditions.