A Framework for Social Device Networking

The concept of connectedness, as inspired by Social Networking Service, is a key factor which participates in changing the way people interact with each other over the Internet. On the other hand, connected world as envisioned by the Internet of Things aims to expand the idea of connectivity to include everything in the physical world to a big network called the Internet. In order to realize the integration between the world of connected people and the world of connected devices, intelligence including semantics and recommendation acts as a key factor to expand the basic communication functionalities to include search, discovery, mashup of new services and filtering. We propose a framework to facilitate the next generation of communication between people and devices, and a preliminary prototype including three modules DPWSim, ThingsGate, ThingsChat along with a use case discussion.