Revisiting IoT definitions: A framework towards comprehensive use

New technologies constantly change the paradigm of how businesses will be run in future. The Internet Things (IoT) enables new business opportunities for data-driven transformation organisations. emergence IoT concept has resulted numerous definitions, with earlier references primarily focussed on technological aspects. This hindered broader diffusion term as, arguably, definitions do not integrate other non-technological elements and focus more service provisions. To resolve this, our research identifies most significant building blocks required designing an system. is accomplished through a methodological review 122 their consolidation into novel definitional framework. framework unifies traditional technology integrates additional that are likely to increase adoption comprehensive definition support development future applications. Furthermore, serves as reference set scholarly societies standards organisations who, future, can tasked formulating IoT, been case NIST Cloud Computing, which was preceded by several academic studies defining term.