Opportunistic communication for the Internet of everything

With the proliferation of connectivity enabled smartphones and the huge amount of data that everyday users generate through Web 2.0, the Internet is becoming bigger and bigger. The possibility to search for objects and users' profiles is at the base of the Internet of Everything paradigm. Surprisingly, the more we expand our interconnecting possibilities, the more we are interested in local, context-related information. In this paper we describe this envisioned scenario also discussing cutting edge technology that could soon turn this vision into reality.