Building Topic-Driven Virtual IoTs in a Multiple IoTs Scenario

Paolo Lo Giudice; Antonino Nocera; Domenico Ursino; Luca Virgili

doi:10.3390/s19132956

Building Topic-Driven Virtual IoTs in a Multiple IoTs Scenario

Sensors (Basel). 2019 Jul 4;19(13):2956. doi: 10.3390/s19132956.

Authors

Paolo Lo Giudice^{1

2}, Antonino Nocera³, Domenico Ursino⁴, Luca Virgili⁵

Affiliations

¹ Deloitte, Via Tortona, 25, 20144 Milano MI, Italy.
² DIIES, University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, 80122 Reggio Calabria, Italy.
³ DIII, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
⁴ DII, Polytechnic University of Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy. d.ursino@univpm.it.
⁵ DII, Polytechnic University of Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.

Abstract

In the last years, several attempts to combine the Internet of Things (IoT) and social networking have been made. In the meantime, things involved in IoT are becoming increasingly sophisticated and intelligent, showing a behavior that tends to look like the one of users in social networks. Therefore, it is not out of place to talk about profiles of things and about information and topics exchanged among them. In such a context, constructing topic-driven virtual communities starting from the real ones operating in a Multi-IoT scenario is an extremely challenging issue. This paper aims at providing some contributions in this setting. First of all, it presents the concept of profile of a thing. Then, it introduces the concept of topic-guided virtual IoT. Finally, it illustrates two approaches (one supervised and one unsupervised) to constructing topic-guided virtual IoTs in a Multi-IoT scenario.

Keywords: Internet of Things; Multiple IoTs; Profile of a Thing; topic-guided virtual IoTs; unsupervised and supervised approaches to virtual IoT construction.