| IoT Classifications | Matrices Used | Types Included |
| A Review of Smart Cities Based on the Internet of Things Concept [2] | Application, interlinks between objects Considered only for Smart Cities | Home: health, entrteyment, security. Transport: parking, traffic, emergency service, highways. Society: surveillance, environment, social network. National: utilities, military, smart grids |
| JAPAN PATENT OFFICE [15] | technique of creating new values and services through utilization of information. | ZIT (IPC,FI and CPC system is not enough) |
| SO [3] | classification according to the concepts of creator and purpose (creator and purpose) | self-made: personal purpose. ready-made: industrial company |
| Smart objects as building block for IoT [16] | Awareness, Representation Interaction | Activity aware, police aware, process aware objects |
| Design and implementation of framework for building distributed smart objects system [4] | Operation based classification | SODD : smart object description document , profile description document (PDD) |
| User Innovation for the Internet of Things [17] | User innovation and market based innovation (user centered ecosystem) | User-led and market based innovation |
| Internet of Things Tectonics [11] | Infrastructure ecosystem hardware side (collection of connected devices) | Enterprise and consumer application, industrial automation, entire stack of infrastructure beneath those devices |
| Corsaro sort IoT [12] | Any application (collect-store-analyses-share) | Consumer (CIoT) and Industrial (IIoT) |
| Web [10] | Based on user advantage | Wearables, Media, Home automation, Smart appliances. |
| Internet of things ecosystem [13] | With or without IP address internet of people. | Internet of people and internet of things with IP based or not |
| Classification based on human [18] | Functionality of the technology, industrial or consumer dependent | Embeddable, Wearables, Moldable, Surmountable |