Online Internet of Things (IoT) communities allow IoT engineers to publish information about their projects to a wider audience of users. Despite the growing adoption of IoT technologies in business, the popularity of IoT projects remains unexplored. Understanding how to improve the popularity of IoT projects helps project owners attract more users and foster business opportunities. In this paper, we explore the important characteristics of popular IoT projects across three facets: views count, respects count, and trending scores. We study over 18,000 IoT projects hosted on Hackster.io—a large online IoT community. In particular, we perform a time-series clustering to identify the evolution of each of the three popularity facets. In addition, we construct linear mixed-effect models to investigate the most important factors associated with the popularity of IoT projects. We provide insights to online IoT communities to improve the user guidelines to help (new) IoT engineers make their projects more eye-catching.

在线物联网 (IoT) 社区允许物联网工程师向更广泛的用户群发布有关其项目的信息。尽管物联网技术在商业中的采用越来越多，但物联网项目的受欢迎程度仍未得到探索。了解如何提高物联网项目的受欢迎程度有助于项目所有者吸引更多用户并培育商机。在本文中，我们从三个方面探讨了流行物联网项目的重要特征：观看次数、尊重次数和趋势分数。我们研究了 Hackster.io（一个大型在线物联网社区）上托管的 18,000 多个物联网项目。特别是，我们执行时间序列聚类来识别三个流行方面中每一个方面的演变。此外，我们构建了线性混合效应模型来研究与物联网项目受欢迎程度相关的最重要因素。我们为在线物联网社区提供见解以改进用户指南，以帮助（新）物联网工程师使他们的项目更加引人注目。