Social Pal: A Combined Platform for Internet of Things and Social Networks

Social Internet of Things (SIoT) is a new model that has integrated into two technologies, Internet of Things (IoT) and Social Networks. The SIoT defines as a social network of objects that are not only smarter but also socially conscious. The major issues related to IoT are; communication between the objects, service composition and service discovery. To address the after-mentioned needs, this paper proposes a possible approach named social pal. The social pal collects and provides the information to the IoT, and hence our proposed social network provides glue to allow the human to device interaction. This study leverages the social relationships among the participants (devices and users) in the system for delivering the required services to the users. By using this platform the capability to select and find the devices, discover the services in the IoT paradigm is augmented. Briefly, the main features of social pal are; create an object, define the relationship, find and discover the pairs of objects that can offer services, etc.