Social opportunistic sensing and social centric networking

Abstract

In recent years, with tremendous advances in areas like mo- bile devices, algorithms for distributed systems, communi- cation technology or protocols, all basic technological pieces to realise a Smart City are at hand. Missing, however, is a mechanism that bridges these pieces to ease the creation of Smart Cities at a larger scale. In this visionary paper, we discuss challenges of Smart Cities and propose enabling technologies to bridge the above mentionedpiecesfortheiractualrealisation. Inparticular, we introduce the concepts of Social Opportunistic Sensing (SOS) and Social Centric Networking (SCN). While the for- mer is an enabling technology to interconnect all parties in a Smart City, the latter has the potential to enhance offline social networks in Internet of Things (IoT) enhanced Smart Cities by connecting individuals based on their automati- cally updated profile via context-based routing.