Things That Twitter: Social Networks and the Internet of Things
Matthias Kranz, Luis Roalter, Florian Michahelles · 2010
Abstract. In this paper we investigate on the potential of combining social and technical networks to collaboratively provide services to both human users and technical systems. In the Internet of Things (IoT), things talk and exchange information to realize the vision of future pervasive computing environments. The common physical and social space emerges by the objects ’ ability to interconnect, not only amongst themselves, but also with the human beings living and working in them. In this paper, we report on a use case of a distributed sensor-actor environment in which both humans and technical systems together form a socio-technical network. 1