• Network performance analysis
• Network experimentation
• testbed
• Network measurement

Nowadays Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly evolving from a vision to reality. In order to de-
velop and build practical realizations of stable and efficient IoT systems, it is useful to perform
experiments and trials on a system as realistic as possible: this solution allows to stress and
analyze the system in a realistic scenario and faithful to the chosen operating context.

In the last years smart objects connected to networks are available in the market at afford-
able and competitive prices, thus favoring a continuous development and investment in a sector
that will lead, in the years to follow, to an increasing number of connected devices, embracing
all the objects and appliances that we use in our daily life. In this scenario, prototyping and
experimentation of IoT solutions on a practical realization will be of paramount importance to
validate solutions and carry out interoperability tests between different technologies and proto-
cols. This will allow to reduce the use of simulative models in favor of systems that guarantee
the same operating conditions of real use-cases.

More in detail, in this thesis I present the Polo Tecnologico (Navacchio) IoT Testbed, an
IoT testbed deployed at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Pisa,
with the aim of providing a platform for rapid prototyping, dedicated to the Industry 4.0,
of IoT solutions, allowing them to be evaluated on different fronts, from the network to the
application context.