Design and Implementation of a Cloud-Based Platform for Unleashing the Personal and Communal Internet of Things

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) concept has attracted a lot of attention in recent years and it is foreseen as one of the technologies that will leverage the Future Internet. It is seen as a major enabler of novel applications and services that will foster efficiency and will ease every day's life. However, current IoT solutions are mainly focusing on the development of centralized solutions that do not promote the democratization of the IoT but rather concentrate the IoT around a set of cloud-based platforms which pretend to be open but limit the capacity of the people to tailor their Personal and Communal IoT. This paper describes a software platform based on available generic enablers as defined by the FIWARE initiative. It extends the existing architecture models to accommodate the requirements stemming from the vision of people-sourced IoT devices which are shared to create applications and services in smart communities where the owners of the shared devices are always empowered to control who, and in which circumstances, has access to the shared information.

IoT-Based Framework for Digital Twins in the Industry 5.0 Era

“…[ 36 , 37 ] also highlighted this aspect by emphasizing the vital role of Humans in Production Industries and the need for modeling human interactions in such systems. The concept of humanized IoT was introduced by [ 38 ] by applying Fiskes’s Four Elementary Forms of sociality to IoT, they developed a personal and communal IoT platform that allows users, with different profiles and skills, to share information, interact and build on top of IoT applications. Considering the role of humans in cyber physical systems a hierarchy of design level for socio-technical systems was introduced by [ 39 ] and was developed according to the IoT-A domain model.…”