“…The term 'Internet of Things' emerged in 2001, when Auto-ID used technologies to automatically identify and trace the flow of goods by assigning electronic product codes to items in their supply chains (Santucci, 2010). Nowadays, IoT is a buzzword, commonly defined as "a system containing everyday devices that have microprocessors and sensors (e.g., sound, movement, and temperature) that are connected to the internet" (van Deursen et al, 2021, p. 258).…”