A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Process for the Selection of an Efficient and Reliable IoT Application

Abstract

Saudi Arabia initiated its much-anticipated Vision 2030 campaign, a long-term economic roadmap aimed at reducing the country’s reliance on oil. The vision, which is anticipated to be accomplished in the future, underlines compliance, fiscal, and strategy adjustments that will significantly affect all the important features of Saudi economic growth. Technology will be a critical facilitator, as well as controller, of the initiative’s significant transformation. Cloud computing, with the Internet of things (IoT), could make significant contributions to Saudi Vision 2030’s efficient governance strategy. There are multiple IoT applications that cover every part of everyday life, as well as enabling users to use a variety of IoT applications. Choosing the best IoT applications for specific customers is a difficult task. This paper concentrates on the Kingdom’s advancement towards a fresh, as well as enhanced, method of advancing the development phases pertaining to digital transformation, through implementing and adopting modern communications infrastructure and ICT technology. In addition, this study proposes a recommendation system that relies on a multi-criteria decision-making investigation focusing on the fuzzy TOPSIS method for selecting highly efficient IoT applications. The prototype, as well as the hierarchy, was created to assess and correlate critical criteria based on specialist preferences and recommendations. The T5 IoT application alternative was shown to be the most highly effective and reliable choice according to the findings of both fuzzy TOPSIS and TOPSIS.