An effective model for Selection of the best IoT platform: A critical review of challenges and solutions

Abstract

The process of making an informed decision on which Internet of Things (IoT) platform to choose is an extremely important one in the modern world. The choice procedure is made more difficult as a result of (a) the vast number of IoT platforms that are offered on the market for IoT applications and (b) the wide diversity of functions and solutions that are provided by these platforms. In this article, the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methodologies for selecting the specific Internet of Things platform are taken into consideration. The TOPSIS method is used in this paper to select the best IoT platform. TOPSIS method is a common MCDM method. TOPSIS method used the idea of the best and cost criteria to compute the distance from it. During the IoT platform choice procedures, relevant aspects, such as the stability, consistency, protection, and privacy of IoT platforms, are regarded to be the most significant ones for making decisions.

A Hybrid Group Multi-Criteria Approach Based on SAW, TOPSIS, VIKOR, and COPRAS Methods for Complex IoT Selection Problems

“…A comparison of SAW, TOPSIS, VIKOR, and COPRAS is presented in Table 3 [65][66][67][68][69]. [34], selection of IoT applications [44] Selection of IoT sensors [34,41], selection of IoT service [35,40,43], selection of IoT platform [51,52] Selection of IoT sensors [34], selecting an IoT platform in Supply Chain networks [5] Selection of IoT devices [47] Comparisons between the methods [65,68,69] [65-67,69] [65-67] [ [65][66][67][68] In [65], a comparison was made between the SAW, TOPSIS, ELECTRE, VIKOR, and COPRAS methods, considered separately, in the field of energy technology selection. It was found that changes in the weights had the greatest impact on the performance of the options.…”

“…The DMs select a set of criteria (based on experience and literature reviews [4,37,42,48,49,51,52,59]). These criteria are of two categories: IoT platform requirements and criteria for IoT platform vendors.…”