IoT Adoption: Classification Based on Customer Purchase Behavior

From basic items like smart light to complex devices like a smart traffic control system, adopting IoTs has lots of challenges and barriers. Many researchers have explored IoT product adoption, barriers, and challenges with a focus on a single or limited IoT item such as smart watches, smart phones, or voice assistant devices. While all IoT s share some key features (like real-time connection and data collection by sensors) they are very different from one-another in their function and, more importantly, from the end-user and customer purchase behavior perspectives. In this paper, we classify a range of IoT products from the acquisition perspective of four groups, a) consumers, b) businesses, c) industries, and d) public sectors devices. This classification will help IoT researchers (and manufacturers) identify potential problems, focus their solutions tailored to different end-users, and help provide ideas for further research.