Social Internet of Things (SIoT): Techniques, Applications and Challenges

Internet of Things (IoT) is anticipated to be run over by huge amount of connected instances (both homogeneous and heterogeneous) enabling the interaction with each object for developing the various services in IoT domain. In addition with, involvement the social or human actions in IoT platform derives the new paradigm in IoT environment that is called as Social Internet of Things (SIoT). The working layer of SIoT divided into 3 layer structures with different set of functionalities, techniques, protocols for computation and communications. Through the SIoT prototype, the potential of social beings and objects to discover, select, and use with their services in the IoT is augmented. Now, the SIoT grows in rapid manner in the various real time IoT applications with different SIoT instances like IP based phones, cameras, healthcare devices, television, and cars with determined user interference. Finally, this paper surveyed on various techniques, applications, inferences and challenges associated with Social IoT (SIoT).