مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد یک فرایند FANP برای اولویت دادن به اینترنت اشیا – الزویر 2018

Recent years have witnessed a huge upsurge of interest in internet of things (IoT) throughout the world. This shift has led to the emergence of new challenges associated with this novel paradigm. They all need to be addressed properly by experts and scholars in the field. In this paper, an integrated approach using fuzzy analytic network process (FANP) was applied to carry out the following tasks: first, to identify the most important IoT technology development challenges in Iran and secondly, to prioritize the aforementioned factors. The implemented approach took into account that technological factors, privacy and security issues, business related factors, legal and regulatory challenges, and cultural elements are the main factors which have an impact on IoT technology development. Besides, it was also taken into consideration that several correlations among the aforementioned classes exist. The results indicate that “technological” and “privacy and security” challenges are the most significant factors which affect IoT. Furthermore, “business model”, “architecture and design” and “education and training” were ranked as the most considerable sub-factors respectively. © 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Introduction

Innovation-driven economies have depicted the value of innovation in Business Ecosystem vividly. The role of technology in the advent of innovation has been one of the most challenging debates of our generation. In order to increase social welfare, economic prosperity and environmental care, new technologies can play a significant role in sustainable development. Besides, Due to eradication of non-effective processes and reallocation of resources, new technologies increase the effectiveness of measures that will lead to the development of innovation. Therefore, countries should improve their competitiveness through transition from Factordriven economy toward Efficiency-driven economy and eventually to an innovative one. According to global competitiveness index (GCI), Iran, as a transition country from a factor-based economy to an efficiencydriven one [3,4], is seeking to improve its competitiveness status. One of the pillars of competitiveness, with regard to new technologies, is technological readiness. Thus, to enhance the global competitiveness, accurate strategic planning should be taken into serious consideration. On the other hand, the results of these efforts will be ascertained in the long run. Hence, focusing on emerging technologies, which are expected to have a significant contribution in the competitiveness in the future, is a necessity for policy making. According to Gartner’s report in 2015, the Internet of Things (IoT) is among the technologies that are expected to reach “Peak of Inflated Expectations” in the upcoming decade. IoT is one of the forefront technologies that many countries have been invested on as their future innovation driver [5,6]. To this end, the first step is to identify the IoT technology development challenges. However, The challenges in this area have rarely investigated in developing countries and the knowledge is limited [7,8]. Iran, as a developing country, has shown increasing interest in IoT and has undertaken some noteworthy efforts in Iran Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC) based on its 1404 outlook. Among these efforts “Internet of Things (IoT) Research, Market and Industries” project can be mentioned [4]. As the responsible institute for IoT technology development, ITRC investigated IoT in terms of governance, technology, market, network, security, and usability. Based on these investigations, it can be claimed that the importance of the Internet of Things is still misunderstood in Iran and IoT applications in Iran is limited to Machine to Machine (M2M) communication and Radio-frequency Identification (RFID) technology development. Ergo, this paper aims to increase IoT development knowledge through investigating its challenges on one hand, and provide practical solutions, as executive strategies,