The SMART project is organizing a workshop at the Future Internet Assembly (FIA) conference, exploring the role of social media, IoT and cognitive technologies as essential enablers of emerging ICT-services in smart cities, while also unveiling the trend of combining them in the Cloud.
This paper presents work in progress within the FP7 EUfunded project SMART to develop a multimedia search engine over content and information stemming from the physical world, as derived through visual, acoustic and other sensors. Among the unique features of the search engine is its ability to respond to social queries, through integrating social networks with sensor networks. Motivated by this innovation, the paper presents and discusses the state-of-theart in participatory sensing and other technologies blending social and sensor networks.
