We investigate the emerging meanings of “value” associated with the Internet of Things. Given the current political economy, we argue that the multiple meanings of “value” cannot be reduced to a single domain or discipline, but rather they are invariably articulated at the juxtaposition of three domains: social, economic, and technical. We analyse each of these domains and present domain challenges and cross-domain implications – drawing from an interdisciplinary literature review and gap analysis across sources from academia, business, and governments. We propose a functional model that aggregates these findings into a value-driven logic of the emerging global political economy enabled by digital technology in general and IoT in particular. These conceptual contributions highlight the critical need for an interdisciplinary understanding of the meaning of “value”, so that IoT services and products will create and sustain such concurrent meanings during their entire lifecycle, from design to consumption and retirement or recycling.

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映射物联网的价值

我们调查与物联网相关的“价值”的新兴含义。鉴于当前的政治经济学，我们认为“价值”的多重含义不能被简化为单一领域或学科，而是总是在三个领域并置时表达出来：社会、经济和技术。我们分析了这些领域中的每一个，并提出了领域挑战和跨领域影响——来自跨学科文献回顾和跨学术界、企业界和政府部门的差距分析。我们提出了一个功能模型，将这些发现汇总为由数字技术特别是物联网支持的新兴全球政治经济的价值驱动逻辑。