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While many vendors enter the IoT space by selling a thing for a one-time revenue usually providing a service free of charge, I guess you are looking for business models with e.g. monthly renevues.

In my humble oppionion, you can only create recurring revenues in the IoT if you sell a service not only a device.

I think there are at least 3 options for IoT business models:
1) Value Added IoT Service Provider: A sustainable model on both sides - for the provider and for the end user - the service you sell needs to have an added value that should NOT be "essentially" for the "thing" (you sell). For example, nobody would buy a thermostat where the user needs to pay for a monthly subscription fee for the basic functionality like controlling the heating to hold a certain temparature. However, if you have a special service that optimizes the user experience, users will likely accept a (low) fee e.g. for having an intelligent thermostat with an connection to an A.I. system that predicts when the heating can lower the energy input because the sun is shining in the next 15 minutes, or predicting that you will come 23 minutes later from work this day because of traffic.
2) Sharing Things Provider : The thing you sell is soo expensive that nobody can own it or resp. there is a benefit to share it with others. In this case, managing the thing is a service you can sell on a monthly basis or on demand. For example, a provider manages as a fleet of driverless cars on demand.
3) Platform Provider: You provide a platform for things and other parties pay you when they sell their services or goods using the platform. For example, vendors share revenue with Amazon when the user hits the Dash Button.

Do you have identified another IoT/IoE business model? please share it in this thread

While many vendors enter the IoT space by selling a thing for a one-time revenue usually providing a service free of charge, I guess you are looking for business models with e.g. monthly renevues.

In my humble oppionion, you can only create recurring revenues in the IoT if you sell a service not only a device.

I think there are at least 3 options for IoT business models:
1) Value Added IoT Service Provider: A sustainable model on both sides - for the provider and for the end user - the service you sell needs to have an added value that should NOT be "essentially" for the "thing" (you sell). For example, nobody would buy a thermostat where the user needs to pay for a monthly subscription fee for the basic functionality like controlling the heating to hold a certain temparature. However, if you have a special service that optimizes the user experience, users will likely accept a (low) fee e.g. for having an intelligent thermostat with an connection to an A.I. system that predicts when the heating can lower the energy input because the sun is shining in the next 15 minutes, or predicting that you will come 23 minutes later from work this day because of traffic.
2) Sharing Things Provider : The thing you sell is soo expensive that nobody can own it or resp. there is a benefit to share it with others. In this case, managing the thing is a service you can sell on a monthly basis or on demand. For example, a provider manages as a fleet of driverless cars on demand.
3) Platform Provider: You provide a platform for things and other parties pay you when they sell their services or goods using the platform. For example, vendors share revenue with Amazon when the user hits the Dash Button.

Do you have identified another IoT/IoE business model? please share it in this thread

CSPs need to play to their traditional strengths and experience. If you can ensure secure connectivity, including backup access, and provide device management for the newly connected devices, then you are creating something of value for a customer. This needs to be in partnership with device manufacturers, as creating such things isn’t a CSP’s strong point. CSPs already bring together different types of network devices, managing them consistently and defining some kind of standardisation in the way that you control them. If you can do that for these new range of devices, then a customer who has a large number and wide variety to manage should see that you can offer them a worthwhile service.