The Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to the billions of physical devices (“smart things”) around the world connected to the Internet, all collecting and sharing data. From a technical perspective, the Internet of Things is a system of interconnected devices, systems and computing platforms provided with unique identifiers (UIDs) and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction, instead using M2M (machine-to-machine) communications.