ABSTRACT
IoT6 has demonstrated the high potential of IPv6 for the future IoT, by providing an ideal solution to interconnect unlimited number of heterogeneous smart things, as well as a powerful integrator for the integration of the Internet of Things with Cloud applications and web services. IoT6 has worked in close cooperation with International Forums, standardization bodies, major industries and other research projects with a European and international perspective. The opening of the Internet for commercial use and its growth prompted the IETF to design a new protocol with a larger addressing scheme, standardized in 1998 as the Internet Protocol version 6. The IoT requires software architectures that are able to deal with a large amount of information, queries, and computation, making use of new data processing paradigms, stream processing, filtering, aggregation and data mining. Several communication protocols have moved a step farther by developing IP-based versions of their own protocols.
