**5. Discussion and conclusions**

The Internet of Everything is at an early stage of conceptualization. Research suggests that it will generate significant value to the public and private sector, and as a result society as a whole. Due to the scale of the vision of the Internet of Everything and the proposed centrality of it in people's lives, it introduces levels of complexity orders of magnitude greater than today and beyond human management capabilities to process, analyze, and interpret data in a timely, reliable, and accurate manner.

Intelligent systems both create value to consumers, organization, and society but are also a potential solution for managing complexity in the Internet of Everything. In the Intelligent Internet of Everything, intelligence is distributed throughout the Internet of Everything at smart end-devices, fog nodes, and in the cloud, and depending on the criticality of a given decision, deliberation occurs at the most appropriate point. An Intelligent Internet of Everything is not without significant technical and societal challenges. Such a system of systems requires a high degree of standard-based interoperability that currently does not exist as well as advancements in behavior generation, sensory perception, world modeling, value judgment, knowledge databases, and regulate them that cannot and should not be ignored.
