In a 2015 IBM white-paper (Green, 2015), Green statesthat the Internet-of-Things (IoT) needs to be smarter so,that, existing things would go beyond the regular activitiesof sensing and sometimes actuating. This smartness couldbecome effective thanks to cognitive computing. In a similarstatement, Wu et al. argue that ‘‘without comprehensive cognitive capability, IoT is just like an awkward stegosaurus: allbrawn and no brains” (Wu et al., 2014). Brain-empoweredIoT or Cognitive IoT (CIoT) are the terms that Wu et al