SOCIALITE - Social-Oriented Internet of Things Architecture, Solutions and Environment. PTDC/EEI-SCR/2072/2014
Scope
National
Research Group
coordinator
Synopsis
Although considerable work has been done in the recent past regarding the so-called Internet of Things (IoT), most technologies and solutions for accessing real-world information are either closed, platform-specific, or application-specific. Recent efforts to define IoT reference architectures, such as IoT-A, OpenIoT, SENSEI, or FI-WARE, are important steps in the right direction, but still they lack features that are important for people-centric applications. Existing architectures can be classified as device-centric, technology-centric, service-centric or entity-centric, the latter dealing with entities such as goods, cars or people exactly in the same way. So, on one side, there is the need to define a people-centric IoT architecture that, building on existing architectures, goes beyond devices, technology, services and entities and, on the other side, develop a set of common building blocks, middleware and/or services that can be used to construct people-oriented Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) applications, in domains including but not restricted to mHealth, social networks enhancement, and Ambient-Assisted Living (AAL), in an open and more effective way. One of the main objectives of the project is to define a first generic version of an IoT architecture that can be used for building specific solutions for each particular people-centric application domain. For instance, the instantiation of this generic architecture for the specific case of people with disabilities will comprise several components for communication, ability to add differentiated services for interfacing with different types of users (e.g., patient, caregiver, medical staff), ability to solve heterogeneity in computational capabilities, quality of service, security and privacy. Naturally, this will require the study of existing, general IoT architectures, identification of specific needs or classes of needs, and identification of challenges regarding several key aspects, such as interoperability, reliable communications, self-management, human-machine interaction, security and privacy, among other. A distinguishing aspect concerning this project is the focus on People. In this respect, the project aims to develop and explore a generic CPS/IoT architecture that can be used to support both People2People interaction and People2Thing interaction. The idea is that communication between People2People and People2Thing will be smarter, more intelligent, transparent and unobtrusive to the user, and adapted to the context of the users. This proposal will contribute to bridge the gap between IoT/CPS, in what the devices integration and management is concerned, and the beneficiaries of technologies. Furthermore, in addition to the architecture definition, the project goal is to subsequently develop middleware and services on which people-centric applications can be built. These will explore innovative technological solutions, namely those based on WSNs, mobility, and ubiquity, along with cognitive services and context-awareness, for supporting People2People interaction. Finally, the project plans to explore the developed middleware and services in people-centric contexts, with the aim of demonstrating their use in enhancing the autonomy and quality of life of citizens. In these contexts, the project aims at identifying the needs and means towards general monitoring, safety, assistance, ubiquitous location, context-awareness, autonomy, security and privacy, communication, and interaction with several target user types. These requirements will be the basis for ICT technological developments that seek to efficiently support several services and applications, adapted to and taking into account the users’ needs. For this, a set of service components offering clear APIs will be developed, on which application can be built. These include basic service components, cognitive services, and context awareness. Moreover, a set of application profiles will be identified, with the objective of allowing flexible service compositions that can be used in a variety of people-centric scenarios for quickly developing applications. A distinguishing aspect of the SOCIALITE project is that it adopts a comprehensive view of Smart Cyber-Physical Systems and their use in the context of people to people interactions. This means that the project will explore three complementary lines of research - concept, platform and applications – taking advantage of the expertise of the involved CISUC groups. With respect to the former, the resulting architecture will represent a clear advancement of the state-of-the-art, as it will enable the development of a middleware and services platform with high potential impact in terms of target user communities and developers. In what concerns applications, it is expected that they will make technology use as intuitive, transparent and invisible as possible, allowing users to focus on the applications themselves, thus improving acceptance. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: SOCIALITE is co-financed by COMPETE 2020, Portugal 2020 - Operational Program for Competitiveness and Internationalization (POCI), European Union’s ERDF (European Regional Development Fund), and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
Funding
FCT - project PTDC/EEI-SCR/2072/2014
Total budget
€ 194 836.00
Keywords
Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, people-centric solutions, context awareness, cognitive systems
Start Date
2016-07-01
Partners
CISUC
CISUC budget
€ 194 836.00
End Date
2019-06-30
Publications
2020
J. M. Fernandes and D. Raposo and N. Armando and S. L. S. Maita and J. S. Silva and A. Rodrigues and V. Pereira and H. G. Oliveira and L. Macedo and F. Boavida, "ISABELA – A Socially-Aware Human-in-the-Loop Advisor System", Online Social Networks and Media, vol. 16, pp. 100060-100060, 2020
R. Sharma and B. Ribeiro and A. M. Pinto and F. A. Cardoso, "Exploring Geometric Feature Hyper-Space in Data to Learn Representations of Abstract Concepts", Applied Sciences, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 1-24, 2020
R. Sharma and B. Ribeiro and A. M. Pinto and F. A. Cardoso, "Learning non-convex abstract concepts with regulated activation networks", Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 2020
S. L. S. Maita and P. Hidalgo and J. M. Fernandes and D. Raposo and J. S. Silva and A. Rodrigues and N. Armando and F. Boavida, "Analysis of Student Academic Performance Using Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems", Telecom , vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 18-31, 2020
2019
J. M. Fernandes and D. Raposo and S. L. S. Maita and N. Armando and J. S. Silva and A. Rodrigues and L. Macedo and H. G. Oliveira and F. Boavida, "A Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Approach for Students' Performance Assessment", in SOCIALSENS 2019, the Fourth International Workshop on Social Sensing, Montreal, QC, Canada 15th April, 2019
S. L. S. Maita and D. Raposo and N. Armando and A. Rodrigues and F. Boavida and V. Pereira and J. S. Silva, "A Survey of IoT Management Protocols and Frameworks", IEEE Communications Surveys Tutorials, pp. 1-1, 2019
A. Clemêncio and A. O. Alves and H. G. Oliveira, "Recognizing Humor in Portuguese: First Steps", in 19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019
L. Duarte and L. Macedo and H. G. Oliveira, "Exploring Emojis for Emotion Recognition in Portuguese Text", in 19th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019
F. Boavida and J. S. Silva and V. Pereira and A. Rodrigues and D. Raposo, "R. Saldanha, M. Rocha, J. Sá Silva, V. Pereira, D. Raposo, F. Boavida, A. Rodrigues, M. Abreu, “WeDoCare: an IoT system for vulnerable social groups”, Proceedings of CSCI 2019 - 6th International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Inte", in CSCI 2019 - 6th International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI-ISMC Symposium on Mobile Computing, Wireless Networks, & Security, 2019
D. Raposo and A. Rodrigues and S. L. S. Maita and J. S. Silva and F. Boavida, "Duarte Raposo, André Rodrigues, Soraya Sinche, Jorge Sá Silva, Fernando Boavida, “Security and Fault Detection in In-node components of IIoT Constrained Devices”, Proceedings of LCN 2019 - 44th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Osnabrück, German", in LCN 2019 - 44th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, 2019
2018
R. Sharma and B. Ribeiro and A. M. Pinto and F. A. Cardoso, "Modeling Abstract Concepts For Internet of Everything: A Cognitive Artificial System", in 13th APCA International Conference on Control and Soft Computing (CONTROLO 2018), 2018
R. Sharma and B. Ribeiro and A. M. Pinto and F. A. Cardoso, "Perceiving Abstract Concepts Via Evolving Computational Cognitive Modeling", in IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI), 2018
N. Armando and A. Rodrigues and V. Pereira and J. S. Silva and F. Boavida, "An Outlook on Physical and Virtual Sensors for a Socially Interactive Internet", Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute / Sensors, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 2578, 2018
S. L. S. Maita and O. Polo and D. Raposo and J. M. Fernandes and F. Boavida and A. Rodrigues and V. Pereira and J. S. Silva, "Assessing Redundancy Models for IoT Reliability", in IEEE 19th Int. Symp. A World Wireless, Mob. Multimed. Networks, 2018
R. Sharma and B. Ribeiro and A. M. Pinto and F. A. Cardoso and D. Raposo and N. Armando and A. Rodrigues and J. S. Silva and H. G. Oliveira and L. Macedo and F. Boavida, "Unveiling Markers of Stress Via Smartphone Usage", in Pattern Recognition (RecPad), 2018
D. Raposo and A. Rodrigues and S. L. S. Maita and J. S. Silva and F. Boavida, "Securing WirelessHART: monitoring, exploring and detecting new vulnerabilities", in NCA 2018 - 17th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1-3 November 2018., 2018
S. L. S. Maita and J. S. Silva and D. Raposo and A. Rodrigues and V. Pereira and F. Boavida, "Towards Effective IoT Management", in IEEE Sensors 2018 international conference, New Delhi, India, 28-31 October 2018., 2018
R. Sharma and B. Ribeiro and A. M. Pinto and F. A. Cardoso, "Identifying Psychological Bio-markers Computationally with Regulated Activation Networks", in Encontro Ciência '18 (Poster), 2018
2017
N. Armando and D. Raposo and J. M. Fernandes and A. Rodrigues and J. S. Silva and F. Boavida, "WSNs in FIWARE – Towards the Development of People-centric Applications", in PAAMS 2017 - 15th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2017
R. Sharma and B. Ribeiro and A. M. Pinto and F. A. Cardoso and D. Raposo and Marcelo and A. Rodrigues and J. S. Silva and F. Boavida, "Computational concept modeling for student centric lifestyle analysis: A technical report on socialite case study"", Rep. TR 2017-02, 2017