Despite the availability of prior studies on the Internet of Things (IoT) development, they have largely focused on challenges associated with evolving IoT. Hence, identifying requirements for IoT development, as a multifaceted phenomenon, whereby the challenges would be tackled remains a less-explored valuable line of inquiry. The purpose of this paper is to present a holistic view of crucial building blocks of IoT development, in order to fill this gap.,This paper conducts empirical research using a grounded theory (GT), centering on semi-structured interviews with 25 experts involved in the Iranian IoT development effort. Data were analyzed by using MAXQDA software.,This study presents a conceptual framework of requirements for IoT development, consisting of 14 concepts and 5 categories. The findings reveal that strategic, interactive, institutional, market-oriented and information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure requirements play a salient role in facilitating IoT development.,The findings of this study shed some light on the momentous aspects of IoT development. Practitioners including governmental policymakers, industry and private sectors could benefit from the policy recommendations offered in this study in terms of strategic viewpoint, legal issues, business perspective and technological readiness.,From the methodological aspect, the present research is among the first studies on utilizing GT for exploration of requirements for IoT development. From the theoretical perspective, a remarkable achievement of this study is to profoundly discover some less-explored concepts of IoT development such as commercialization, feasibility study, futurology and institutional aspects. Furthermore, findings of this study highlight the contribution of innovation systems theory for the IoT development area in terms of alignment of the emerged requirements for IoT development with the functions of this theory.

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物联网开发的综合框架

尽管已有关于物联网（IoT）开发的先前研究可用，但他们仍将重点主要放在与物联网发展相关的挑战上。因此，将物联网发展的需求识别为一个多方面的现象，以此来应对挑战仍然是一个探索较少的有价值的研究领域。为了填补这一空白，本文的目的是提供有关物联网发展的重要组成部分的整体视图。本文以扎根理论（GT）为基础进行实证研究，以涉及25位专家的半结构化访谈为中心在伊朗物联网开发工作中。使用MAXQDA软件对数据进行了分析。本研究提出了物联网开发需求的概念框架，包括14个概念和5个类别。研究结果表明，战略，互动，机构，市场导向和信息通信技术（ICT）基础设施要求在促进物联网发展方面起着显著作用。本研究的发现为物联网发展的重要方面提供了一些启示。包括政府决策者，工业界和私营部门在内的从业人员都可以从本研究中从战略角度，法律问题，商业角度和技术准备程度等方面获得的政策建议中受益。从方法论的角度出发，本研究是关于利用技术的首批研究之一。 GT，用于探索物联网开发的需求。从理论的角度来看，这项研究的显著成就是深刻发现了物联网发展的一些尚未探索的概念，例如商业化，可行性研究，未来学和制度方面。此外，本研究的结果突出了创新系统理论对物联网发展领域的贡献，这是因为物联网发展的新兴需求与该理论的功能保持一致。