Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

Defining the IoT

We arrive then at the problem of how to define the IoT and how to distinguish the IoT from today's internet of, well, computers. The IoT is certainly not a new term for mobile-to-mobile technology. It is far more. While many definitions of the IoT exist, we will primarily lean on the following three throughout this book.

The ITU's member-approved definition defines the IoT as follows:

"A global infrastructure for the information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things based on existing and evolving, interoperable information and communication technologies."

The IEEE's small environment description of the IoT is as follows:

"An IoT is a network that connects uniquely identifiable ...