Uma proposta de framework para a integração de objetos inteligentes a redes sociais

Abstract

Daily objects are being enhanced with processing, communication and sensing capabilities (temperature measurement, movement sensors, etc.). Eventually, most of the objects will have some intelligence and nowadays some applications already take advantage of that intelligence to provide services for those objects owners. When shared with friends, colleagues or neighbors even more people are able of benefiting from those services. Besides that, a network that shares smart objects can also offer unique services by using the information gathered from several objects and providing users with new information. Those services could only exist with the information provided by smart objects owned by different people. One of the ways of sharing those smart objects is within a social network, not only as means of publishing but also as source of information (social graphs and user profiles). Therefore, it is proposed a Framework capable of helping on the development of systems that integrate social networks with smart objects. Both functional and nonfunctional requirements were gathered from which the Framework s architecture was designed. Furthermore, a prototype is also developed using the Framework and has the purpose of being a proof of concept.