POWER THROUGH THINGS: FOLLOWING TRACES OF COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN INTERNET OF THINGS
POWER THROUGH THINGS: FOLLOWING TRACES OF COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN INTERNET OF THINGS

Summary/Abstract: Purpose – it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the input Internet of Things (IoT) has to offer in the development of public, business and other societal structures. Therefore, this paper seeks to determine the current state of knowledge in the field of IoT in terms of wisdom creation and emergence of collective intelligence. First, we discuss the concept of collective intelligence and then define the phenomena of IoT and identify the areas of its application. Later, the author reviews how intelligent outputs of IoT are defined in the scientific literature. These findings of theoretical investigation may shed some light on the research field that is promising but still very vague. Design/methodology/approach – this article provides a general overview of IoT concept and its growing relation to collective intelligence. Methods of document analysis and content analysis were applied. Theoretical analysis enabled recognition of IoT phenomena in relation to wisdom creation and emergence of collective intelligence. Findings – general overview of the field revealed that new understanding of collective intelligence surfaces. Often intelligent behaviour and decisions emerge from ever-increasing cooperation between ‘things’ and humans. The variety of new concepts and authors trying to describe relationship of ‘things’ with each other and humans when creating intelligent outcomes revealed that this field is still in its very infancy and needs considerable amount of industry and scientific efforts to be understood and executed.

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