With the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) as a new source of “big” data and value creation, businesses encounter novel opportunities as well as challenges in IoT design. Although recent research argues that digital technology can enable new kinds of development processes that are distinctive from their counterparts in the 20th century, minimal attention has been focused on the IoT design process. In order to contextualize New Product Development (NPD) processes for IoT, this paper comprehensively interrogates existing, and emerging development approaches for products, services, software, and integrated products, and several factors that affect designing IoT. This discussion includes the generic development process, the commonalities and differences of different development approaches, and processes. The paper demonstrates that only a few existing approaches reflect vital characteristics of networked artifacts or the integration of data science within the development model, which is one of the key attributes of IoT design. From these investigations, we propose “The Mobius Strip Model of IoT Development ProcessI,” a conceptual process for IoT design, which is distinctive to others. The continuous loops of the IoT design integrate the attributes and phases of different processes and consist of two different development approaches and strategies. Understanding the particular attributes of the IoT NPD process can help novice and experienced researchers in both feeding and drawing insight from the broader design discourse.

随着物联网 (IoT) 作为“大”数据和价值创造的新来源的出现，企业在物联网设计中遇到了新的机遇和挑战。尽管最近的研究认为，数字技术可以实现不同于 20 世纪同类技术的新型开发过程，但人们很少关注物联网设计过程。为了将物联网的新产品开发 (NPD) 流程置于情境中，本文全面探讨了产品、服务、软件和集成产品的现有和新兴开发方法，以及影响物联网设计的几个因素。这个讨论包括通用开发过程，不同开发方法和过程的共性和差异。该论文表明，只有少数现有方法反映了网络工件的重要特征或开发模型中数据科学的集成，这是物联网设计的关键属性之一。根据这些调查，我们建议“物联网开发过程的莫比乌斯带模型I ”，物联网设计的概念性过程，与其他人不同。物联网设计的连续循环整合了不同流程的属性和阶段，由两种不同的开发方法和策略组成。了解 IoT NPD 流程的特定属性可以帮助新手和有经验的研究人员从更广泛的设计话语中获取和汲取见解。