A Sociology-based interaction relationship model in IoT

Objects having social properties is a well explored field in Sociology and the idea has been introduced into the field of Internet of Things (IoT) recently. In this paper, the authors analyze some social features of IoT and propose a Sociology-based interaction relationship model between IoT objects. The relationship model, together with the automatic relationship recognition, can enhance the dynamics and the autonomy of communications in IoT. In the latter part of the paper, the authors give an experiment based on real data as a simple example to show how the paper's idea reduces the dependency of IoT on human intervention and makes IoT objects more `smart'.