A social network of buildings

After a longtime of staying into an apartment, the residents will have a common habits, common routine and other common way of life. It means, each apartment can be uniquely represented. So what will happen when these building starts forming a social network. The HVAC of one building will talk to other and can take common decision. Possibilities are infinite. It is up to the imagination of human being to define the changes that it will bring. Thanks to the "internet of things" spreading into common man's life, building can also form a social network of their own. 

In London, a company called Imagination Technology hosted an event on internet of things titled, "Socialising the Internet of Things". An online magazine "the insider" has mentioned on its website, "In the airy waiting area, around 70 people, all wearing devices milled about and looked at each other sideways. Eventually people chatted and worked out that through some sort of sensors, the lights on the tags would light up in different colours when they came into range with another tag. The colour of the lights on your device represented the team you were in.In fact, Imagination’s head of technology, Kel Phillipson and his team had cooked up 150 devices with the help of hardware hacking specialist Charles Yarnold. The tags used infra-red to communicate with each other as well as radio communication to send data back to a base station.Integrating the Internet of Things into the event was a lively touch and one that illustrated the beginnings of our connected world rather nicely.".