Social Internet of Things (SIoT): Foundations, thrust areas, systematic review and future directions

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm connects physical world and cyberspace via physical objects and facilitate the development of smart applications and infrastructures. A physical object is the basic constituent of IoT, often called as smart object, that interact with other objects and possess the information processing abilities. The smart objects when deployed in the real world, collect information from the surrounding environment and this is abstracted as a service. IoT has established a universe where humans are provided smart data services by the fusion of physical objects and information networks. This approach has been extended to include social networking aspects in the IoT that auton..