Manifold definitions of Internet of Things traceable within the research community testify to

the strong interest in the IoT issue and to the vivacity of the debates on it. By browsing the
literature, an interested reader might experience a real difficulty in understanding what IoT
really means, which basic ideas stand behind this concept, and which social, economical and
technical implications the full deployment of IoT will have.

The definitions above paved the way to the ITU vision of the IoT, according to which: from
anytime, anyplace connectivity for anyone, we will now have connectivity for anything [10]. A
similar vision is available from documents and communications of the European Commission,
in which the most recurrent definition of IoT involves Things having identities and virtual
personalities operating in smart spaces using intelligent interfaces to connect and
communicate within social, environmental, and user contexts [3].