Amazingly insightful.

The Internet of Things (IoT) will create a world-wide connected infrastructure of billions of objects over the next 10 years. Through the use of identity, any person, device, or service could be contained within their associated “Communities of Interest”. Without a unique identifier or an association with a real physical identity, the person, device, or service is inanimate, unable to communicate, or provide context to the information that it has access to, or is able to.

http://blogs.unisys.com/disruptiveittrends/2014/10/27/the-benefits-of-access-governance-the-new-baseline-for-identity-management/