Learning from nowhere, preliminary experiments

Abstract

We instantiate a social things paradigm in terms of a social network of facts which drives our household appliances in our name. The appliances are connected to the network, directly receiving the sequence of instructions (parameter/value pairs) constituting the recipe to perform a task requested by the user. The recipes are issued by the computational intelligence algorithms in the core of the social network. In this paper we describe the strongholds of this ecosystem, (that we realized in the frame of the EU project Social&Smart) in terms of: 1. a unprecedented architecture of Internet of Things, 2. an open source information infrastructure, 3. a new networked intelligence paradigm and 4. an innovative business model for the household appliances manufacturing and retailing.