Authors:
Zakaria Maamar
1
;
Amel Benna
2
;
Vanilson Buregio
1
and
David Alves
3
Affiliations:
1
University of Doha for Science and Technology, Doha, Qatar
;
2
Research Center for Scientific & Technical Information (CERIST), Algiers, Algeria
;
3
Department of Computing, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Asset, IoT, Service, and Management.
Abstract:
This paper discusses the stages and techniques to guide the conversion of IoT-compliant things into assets and then, services. While existing initiatives focus on the conversion of things into services as part of the servitization process, there are not initiatives that focus on thing conversion into assets as part of the assetization process. Assetization permits to model things from a management perspective in terms of depreciation over time, transferability across locations, disposability after use, and convertibility across platforms. Thanks to assetization, things would provide economical, informational, operational, and regulatory benefits to their owners (whether moral or juridical). A system demonstrating the technical doability of thing assetization is also discussed in the paper.