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The past decade has witnessed a significant proliferation of Internet-capable devices. While its greatest commercial impact has been in the area of consumer electronics, with the smartphone revolution and the uptake of wearables, connecting humans is only part of a greater trend toward the interconnection of the physical world with the digital world.

While the Internet is a communication network connecting people to information, the Internet of Things (IoT) is an interconnected ecosystem of uniquely addressable physical objects with varying degrees of sensing, processing, and actuation capabilities, sharing the ability to communicate and interoperate through the Internet as their common denominator [1].