  The compliance of IoT platforms to quality is paramount to achieve users
satisfaction. Currently, we do not have a comprehensive set of guidelines to
appraise and select the most suitable IoT platform architectures that meet
relevant criteria. This paper is a tentative response to this critical
knowledge gap where we adopted the design science research approach to develop
a novel evaluation framework. Our research, on the one hand, stimulates an
unbiased competition among IoT platform providers and, on the other hand,
establishes a solid foundation for IoT platform consumers to make informed
decisions in this multiplicity. The application of the framework is illustrated
in example scenarios. Moreover, lessons learned from applying design science
research are shared.
