Techno-Economic Framework for IoT Service Platform: : A Cost-Structure Aspects of IoT Service Provisioning

• A plethora of Internet of Things (IoT) platforms are available in the market today. Most of the IoT platforms are used mainly for service prototyping. Cost-efficient service scalability on any platform is still an unresolved concern that, so far, has been addressed qualitatively. A quantitative method for IoT platform economics is missing in the literature. In this paper, we propose a generic framework to address this gap. Our proposed framework covers the dimensioning of the platform's software and hardware to envisage the design, deployment, and operation cost of platform services. Then, we use the framework to perform a quantitative study of platform rollout in three platform business contexts. Our analysis shows the applicability of different deployment and platform integration choices. Our results suggest that storage and energy are the main cost drivers for platforms' hardware scalability, where the main cost driver is the intensity of the sensors' message transmission rate. Additionally, our use-case based study suggests that platform as a service (PaaS) is only beneficial for actors who have limited scale or niche market need.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Kommunikationssystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Communication Systems (hsv//eng)

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