Enabling Cognitive Contributory Societies Using Social-IoT

A wide variety of unique smart services and applications are evolving based on Internet of Things for resolving numerous issues in daily life. As a result, sensors, devices, and humans are required to associate with each other to form a new service. To get the best out of the IoT objects a platform is required to integrate different type of objects so that objects can associate with each other and can make relation like the human society. The admiration of social networks and the advent of the IoT facilitates a new research paradigm called Social IoT (SIoT), where real-world objects can participate in an online social network like the human social network. This effort leads to an immense possibility of unique applications for a smart cognitive society. However, it is still a challenge to explore these applications due to a lack of an adequate SIoT framework, where SIoT nodes can be managed and monitored in real-time under a cognitive framework. As these IoT nodes and services are going to co-exist with us (human), we foresee establishing of cognitive contributory skills where IoT nodes, services, and even human skills can collectively form a cognitive society to share resources.