Luigi Atzori, Antonio Iera, Giacomo Morabito
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With increasing advances in technology,
introduction of “smart objects” such as
phones, televisions, and automobiles
Communication between: people, smart
objects and people, and objects and other
objects
Res sapiens: smart object
Res agens: acting object
Res socialis: social object
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Creating their own social network
Through partnership in the thing’s social
network, proficiency in building complex
services would increase dramatically
Data gathered by one object could be shared
with another, thus providing the user with a
plethora of information needed for the task at
hand.
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Urban traffic efficiency.
Drivers can rely on maps and other
applications where data is derived from an
external server, but this can lead to
inaccurate and outdated information.
If, instead, the driver’s car can collect data
from the cars it passes, which can then view
data that car attained, accurate traffic flow
could be gathered.
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While the thought of allowing the
development of relationships between smart
devices leads to many science fiction stories
and is an independence that could be scary
and foreign to the general public, the benefits
of such research could lead to more
productive, technology-aided lives.
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Atzori, L.; Iera, A.; Morabito, G., "From "smart
objects" to "social objects": The next
evolutionary step of the internet of
things," Communications Magazine, IEEE ,
vol.52, no.1, pp.97,105, January 2014
doi: 10.1109/MCOM.2014.6710070
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp
.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6710070&isnumber=67
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