Research and Course Guides: Emerging Technologies in Business: Internet of Things

Research

Keeping Current: Sources & Search Strategies for Internet of Things

Use these suggestions to perform your own searches for current content about Blockchain technology.

As a keyword search strategy in LibrarySearch or one of the other research databases, try: "internet of things" OR IOT. As a next step, add additional terms or concepts using a Boolean "AND" operator like: "internet of things" AND "customers". As you find quality articles, look in the item's record for any subject headings that seem promising to expand your search.

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Suggested Library Research Databases to Search for the Internet of Things

Try the following sources to search for articles or data on this topic:

MIT Technology Review
A good source for timely tech articles. Use the link above for unlimited searching across all issues. TIP: For maximum results, change "Select a Field" to "TX All Text" next to the second search box. For unlimited browsing of current and past issues, use this link and click on the desired year and issue (on the right side of the screen). Web version is also at: https://www.technologyreview.com/, limited to 3 articles/month.

Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Business Source Premier contains scholarly journals in all disciplines of business including management, finance, marketing and international trade. It also contains company, industry and country reports, SWOTs, and market research reports.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista indexes statistics and studies. Search on a relevant topic, then look especially in the results or in the filters at left for dossiers, topics, or studies.
eMarketer This link opens in a new window
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eMarketer provides updated, “grab-and-go” market data, statistics, and analysis on the Internet, e-business, online marketing, media, and emerging technologies. It includes analyst reports, daily research articles, and e-business and online marketing statistics.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect offers an interdisciplinary collection of 2,500 journals and 30,000 books, focusing on science, technology, finance, medicine, and other social science disciplines.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry This link opens in a new window
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ABI/Inform Trade & Industry contains business and in depth company and industry articles from over 2,000 scholarly, trade, and news publications. It also includes market research and industry reports from major and smaller, niche industries.
IEEE Electronic Library This link opens in a new window
Featuring content from IEEE as well as the Institution of Engineering and Technology, IEL contains scholarly journals, magazines, and proceedings from current literature in electrical engineering, communications, and computer science.
ProQuest US Newsstream, including Star Tribune This link opens in a new window
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Searches the most recent U.S. news content back to the 1980s, featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites. Includes full text of The New York Times, Star Tribune, Pioneer Press, and Wall Street Journal.

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Selected Readings

The literature on these emerging technologies is vast and growing. To whet your appetite and explain some of the basics, here's a very brief selection of articles, reports, book chapters, and ebooks on Internet of Things (updated periodically).

Standards to Secure the Sensors That Power IoT
Communications of the ACM, June 2023
Existing security standards do not always offer sufficient protection to secure the Internet of Things.
eMarketer: Internet of Things
Provides market data, statistics, and analysis on the Internet, marketing, and emerging technologies. This search scoped to the internet of things. If you hit a paywall off campus, log in to our subscription version and search for the content by topic or title.
Global - Internet of Things (IoT)
Global - Internet of Things (IoT) - Updated 7 November 2022. 2022. Global Industry SnapShots (Nov 07).
Industrial Internet of Things: Safety and Security Protocol
Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Protocol Design Networks, World Economic Forum, "Industrial Internet of Things: Safety and Security Protocol". April 2018.
Internet of Things (IOT)
Statista. Internet of Things (IoT). 2022. (also search for many related reports).
Internet of Things
Penttinen, Jyrki T. J. (2016). Internet of Things. In Wireless Communications Security: Solutions for the Internet of Things. Chichester, UK: Wiley. (book chapter)
Internet of Things: The Industry Connection
BMI Research/Business Monitor International. 2021. Internet of Things: The Industry Connection.
The Internet of Things and Data Analytics Handbook
Geng, Hwaiyu, ed. (2017). The Internet of Things and Data Analytics Handbook. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. (ebook)
Too Smart for Its Own Good: Addressing the Privacy and Security Challenges of the Internet of Things
Kirtley, Jane and Scott Memmel. 2018. Too Smart for Its Own Good: Addressing the Privacy and Security Challenges of the Internet of Things. Journal of Internet Law 22 (4): 1-33.
What It Takes to Get an Edge in the Internet of Things
Chui, Michael; Brett May, and Subu Narayanan. 2018. What It Takes to Get an Edge in the Internet of Things. McKinsey Quarterly (4): 21-25.

Videos

How Do We Build Trust Into the Internet of Things?
Price, Daniel. 2018. How Do We Build Trust Into the Internet of Things? (11:25)
Internet of Things: Transforming the Routine
TED Institute. 2016. Internet of Things: Transforming the Routine. (2:08)