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Implementing Internet of Things in Small Businesses of Bahrain

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Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications (AMLTA 2020)

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Internet of things (IoT) is one of the most advanced technologies that gradually occurs in organizations through a platform for exchanging information from one point to another, using interconnected devices. Almost all sorts of firms use of IoT. Although, most of the small firms still fall shy of implementing due to ample reasons. This study explores ways it is vital to implement IoT in Bahraini firms where most of the business is affected thru the implementation of IoT. This study focuses on factors that aid in implementing IoT in small businesses, by identifying how IoT technology is implemented in small businesses of Bahrain.

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  1. MIS Department, Globalits, Manama, Bahrain

    Abdulla Abdulla, Ali Albash, Hassan Ashoor, Allam Hamdan, Anjum Razzaque, Abdulmuttaleb Musleh & Muneer Al Mubarak

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  1. Faculty of Computer and Information, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

    Aboul Ella Hassanien

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

    Roheet Bhatnagar

  3. Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Helwan, Egypt

    Ashraf Darwish

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Abdulla, A. et al. (2021). Implementing Internet of Things in Small Businesses of Bahrain. In: Hassanien, A., Bhatnagar, R., Darwish, A. (eds) Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications. AMLTA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1141. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3383-9_49

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