“…Indeed, it is this new perspective that technology and applications are integrated to provide researchers with the opportunity to study a smarter IoT ecosystem (Bhatti et al, 2014; Cicirelli, Guerrieri, Mercuri, Spezzano, & Vinci, 2019; Gomez, Chessa, Fleury, Roussos, & Preuveneers, 2019; Jara et al, 2014; Vlachostergiou, Stratogiannis, Caridakis, Siolas, & Mylonas, 2016), and discuss IoT implementation and application in the areas of Open Source technologies (Li, 2018); IoT startup ecosystems for new technology creation (Lim et al, 2018); Big Data (Chae, 2019); and the use of the IoT platform as middleware and infrastructure for promoting user interactions (Mineraud et al, 2016). Furthermore, these advances have also stimulated researchers to start discussions about the security and privacy of users and stakeholders (Ammar, Russello, & Crispo, 2018; Díaz López et al, 2018; Martínez, Hernández‐Ramos, Beltrán, Skarmeta, & Ruiz, 2017; Noor, Binti, & Hassan, 2019; Park, Na, & Chang, 2016).…”