Social Internet of Things: The Potential of the Internet of Things for Defining Human Behaviours

Abstract

The potential of the artificial intelligence, data mining and the so-called Big Data to build solutions based on the understanding of human behaviours is being extended with the capabilities of the Future Internet and the Internet of Things (IoT). The described potential of data and networks have been analyzed by the complex network theory, offering a specialized branch, the defined as Human Dynamics. The goal with the Internet of Things in the social area is to describe in real-time the human behaviours and activities. These goals are starting to be feasible through the quantity of data provided by the personal devices such as smart phone, and the smart environments such as Smart cities that makes more intelligent the environment and offer a smart space that sense our movements, actions, and the evolution of the ecosystem. This work analyses the ecosystem defined through the triangle formed by Big Data, Smart Cities and Personal/Wearable Computing to determinate human behaviours and human dynamics. For this purpose, the life-cycle of human dynamics determinations in Smart Cities have been analysed in order to determinate the current status of the technology, challenges, and opportunities.