*It's a little odd that there's so much philosophy and so little mention of ubiquitous gas pipelines, but, hey, go for it.
http://www.internetofthings.ru/
Internet of Things Concept for a Social Responsibility
By Vadim V. Chekletsov & Vladimir I. Arshinov In: Society
Internet of Things concept for a Social Responsibility.
"Abstract: The paper deals with implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) concept for development of Social Responsibility. IoT as pan-communication technology can to increase persons and group awareness, to change modus operandi with serious pervasive games. Furthermore, IoT have great potential to manage complexity by re (constructing) systems for a functioning largely without human intervention.
" Keywords: Social Responsibility, Internet of Things, Complexity, Smart Environments, Serious Games, Pervasive Games, Hybrid Reality.
"Acknowledgement: This research project would not have been possible without the support of Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian Foundation for the Humanities.
"Individuals ability to active social response depends on various circumstances of person’s internal and external world (umwelt, mitwelt, eigenwelt). From complex spectrum of these influences we’ll consider
A. human awareness, opportunities for relevant data, information and knowledge acquisition (afferent streams);
B. Modus operandi forming (efferent streams), which we’ll examine in terms of new pan-communication technologies.
" The Internet of Things (IoT) ontological shift arises from several trends:
1. Artifacts acquire memory (RFID…);
2. Artifacts acquire sensing (Wireless Sensor Networks…);
3. Artifacts acquire thinking (Ubiquitous, pervasive computing…); 4. Artifacts acquire communication with persons, systems and each other (WiFi, Mobile Internet, RFID, Augmented Reality, Sensors, GPS…).
" The Internet of Things project declare our new possibility to (inter)connect «6А»- Anyone, Anything, Anytime, Any place, Any service, Any network.
" So the Internet of Things (IoT) concept is a vision in which persons, groups, objects, systems etc. will be strongly connected, and it touches profoundly all aspects of society. To reflect on such a vast subject, it must be broken down in different layers: a value chain, a service an application layer, the smart city concept and a global layer.
"The first layer affects industry and end-users, the second affects individuals and business models, the third affects planning and infrastructure, the fourth affects how decision making processes and resources will be divided on the planet. ..."
