Research Methodology Methodology Followed forCalculation of Market Shares: • Market shares by component, by type, by application, by platform, by each region and by company were calculated based on the responses received through primary surveys with industry experts, in which the respondents were asked about the market shares or revenue generated from various platform of IoT. The final shares were calculated by taking the geometric mean of the responses gathered from key opinion leaders after eliminating the outliers. Methodology Followed forForecasting: • TechSci Research performed periodical checks on data collected through the surveys with logic checks and analyzed the survey results in SPSS/TableauSoftware. • Data triangulation techniques were applied to fill the gaps and to present a more meaningful picture of the market. To forecast Iran IoT market, TechSciResearchused variousforecasttechniques suchas: ✓ Moving Average ✓ Time Series Analysis ✓ Regression Analysis ✓ Econometric and Judgmental Analysis 10