مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد اینترنت اشیا: ادبیات کسب و کار از دیدگاه کاربر و سازمانی – الزویر 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises a new technological paradigm, by connecting anything and anyone at any time and any place, using any path/network and any service (Baldini et al., 2016; Guillemin and Friess, 2009; Man et al., 2015; UK Research Council, 2013). The IoT vision is that of a “smart world” which is equipped with sensing technologies and smart components. The IoT features Web 3.0, which involves users much more deeply than its predecessor, Web 2.0, as they and their immediate physical environment are more heavily involved with the technology in ways that go far beyond content creation and sharing (Kreps and Kimppa, 2015). Not surprisingly, such a bold vision has captured the imagination and attention of both academics and practitioners, as the IoT could underpin innovative services and applications. The IoT is expected to have a significant impact on individuals, businesses, and policy as societal and business models will be challenged, and new services introduced (Shin, 2014; Stankovic, 2014). On the other hand, the IoT is not without its challenges and caveats. For instance, the pervasive nature of the IoT and the amount of data generated are likely to involve concerns about the invasion of privacy in an all-connected world. Much work has been carried out over the past few years on projects related to the IoT. Among the 11 significant concepts depicting the future of information infrastructures and technologies (e.g. semantic web, ubiquitous computing, etc.), the number of publications related to the IoT stands out, as it has increased in recent years (Olson et al., 2015). Given the wide scope of the IoT, it is important to make sense of the current state of play and inform the future research agenda accordingly. To our knowledge only a limited number of reviews have been published to date, but none of them have examined the business perspective. Atzori et al. published a review paper in 2010 that presents the visions and concepts including a classification and introduction of technologies enabling IoT, a framework of IoT relevant applications, and proposing potential avenues for further research (Atzori et al., 2010). Following a similar approach, Li et al., 2014 provided an integrated view of the IoT, discussed the IoT service-oriented architecture, enabling technologies and applications, addressed the technical challenges, standardisation activities, security and privacy problems, innovation in IoT environment, and IoT development strategies in various regions as the main challenges for future research. Yan et al., 2015 conducted a co-word analysis, finding that the most prominent keywords associated with the IoT are wireless sensor networks (WSN), radio frequency identification devices (RFID), and security. The frequency analysis of Mishra et al., 2016 produced a similar finding, i.e. that RFID was the most frequently occurring keyword, while WSN and security ranked second and third. These three keywords and the clusters they represented over 80% of the IoT publications (Yan et al., 2015). Hence, the enabling technologies and security issues of the IoT were the most covered research topics up to 2014. Lastly, Mehmood et al. (Mehmood et al., 2016) studied the centrality values ranked by country of a social network analysis of international co-authors and co-institutions and showed that China occupied the largest number of publications co-authored with other nations, followed by the U.S., Spain, and the U.K. Among the five review papers identified, three of them (Mehmood et al., 2016; Mishra et al., 2016; Yan et al., 2015) conducted quantitative research that analysed the high-frequency keywords, highlighted the top cited authors, most effective journals, institutions and countries, and mapped the IoT to clusters.