Fecha de publicación: 27/10/2022 Fuente: Wipo "IOT" In this control method for an IoT appliance, the IoT appliance and a user using the IoT appliance each have a digital account, and the method includes: acquiring first payment transaction data for the user using the IoT appliance to utilize a token to pay a usage fee for the IoT appliance (S1); identifying the digital account of the IoT appliance associated with an identifier allocated uniquely to hardware of the IoT appliance, from the acquired first payment transaction data (S2); and deducting the token from the digital account of the user and adding the same to the digital account of the IoT appliance, to transfer the usage fee for the IoT appliance to the digital account of the IoT appliance, on the basis of the acquired first payment transaction data (S3).