Constructing a multi-sided business model for a smart horizontal IoT service platform
Frank Berkers, Marc Roelands, Freek Bomhof, Thomas Bachet, Martin van Rijn, W.A. Koers · 2013
In order to realize a viable business ecosystem in the Internet of Things (IoT), we investigated how a smart horizontal IoT service platform can bring value and economies of scale to all required ecosystem stakeholders. By means of an example application domain case, this paper constructs a multi-sided business model illustrating how such viable business ecosystem can be achieved leveraging the key platform features.