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6. IoT Ecosystems

Barry Haughian1 
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Galway, Ireland
 

What is an IoT ecosystem? It may surprise you to know there are as many definitions as there are ecosystems. An IoT ecosystem is often defined as the collaborators involved in the development and evolution of IoT services. What is usually missing from this definition are the users of the service who are fundamental for its evolution and its surrounding ecosystem.

Ecosystems are fundamental for the success in the IoT because of the diversity of technologies and industries involved in creating services, as illustrated in Figure 6-1 . See Ref. 11, “Internet Geeks,”1 who are creating ...

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