THE INTERNET OF THINGS APPLIED TO BUSINESS: A BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY

ABSTRACT

The Internet of Things is a technological innovation, based on artifacts and consolidated concepts like Internet and Smart Objects. The growing business application of the Internet of Things makes it necessary to evaluate the strategy, benefits and challenges associated to the application of this technology. The main objective of this paper is to present the definition of the Internet of Things, based on the most cited articles and as a secondary objective, present publication statistics classified by year and related terms, like ubiquitous computation. One of the conclusions is that papers related to business represent only 5% of all the papers analyzed by this research, considering just the papers published on journals. It shows that there is a great Business Administration field to research.

Keywords:
Internet of Things; Ubiquitous Computation; Smart Objects; Web of Things; Business