Architecture design for social web of things
Chunhong Zhang, Cheng Cheng, Yang Ji · 2012
In recent years, the development of sensing technology has led to the pervasive application of ubiquitous computing into people's life. In parallel with that trend, people relies more on context-aware service and device in many aspects, such as health care, elderly home care and so forth. However, traditional sensors are typically locked into unimodal closed systems, which hinders the access to such sensors that can be available in other information systems. Moreover, we believe that users are primarily interested in real-world entities (things, places, and people) and their high-level states (empty, free, sitting, walking etc.) rather than in individual sensors and their raw output data. In order to share physical information and enable the communication between both machines and human, we proposed a Social Web of Thing Framework based on the Restful Web Service and Social Network. In addition, we discussed the key technology and use case related to our framework. At last, we introduced the case study of MagicHome.