The one in [7] is not the only ‘‘Things oriented” vision
clearly speaking of something going beyond RFID. Another
one has been proposed by the United Nations, which, during
the 2005 Tunis meeting, predicted the advent of IoT. A
UN Report states that a new era of ubiquity is coming
where humans may become the minority as generators
and receivers of traffic and changes brought about by the
Internet will be dwarfed by those prompted by the networking
of everyday objects [8].