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

Nowadays Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly evolving from a vision to reality. In order to develop 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 affordable 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 protocols. 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.