Fecha de publicación: 03/05/2023 Fuente: Wipo "IOT" In order to manage network structure changes of an IoT-network (NWIoT) with at least one IoT-data source device (DSODIOT,1, DSODIoT,2), in which the network structure changes are managed automatically and in which the network structure is changeable due to commissioning of an IoT-data sink device (DSIDIoT) within the IoT-network (NWIoT) by configuring the IoT-data sink device to be commissioned or by adapting or retiring and replacing current data of the IoT-data sink device, it is proposed to (i) prioritize (prt) information about a location (INFloc) of the IoT-data source device and information about quality attributes of IoT-data source device data (INFdqa), being sourced by each IoT-data source device and being requested (req) and fetched (ftc) from each IoT-data source device, via a communication link (COL) with a prioritization algorithm (PRA) such that- a weighted proximity metric is computed (cpt) for each IoT-data source device according to which a weighted proximity is computed based on the location information and which takes into account the data quality attribute information, wherein weights for each input parameter of the prioritization algorithm is pre-configured for the IoT-data sink device,- each IoT-data source device is ranked (rnk) according to the weighted proximity computed for the IoT-data source device, and (ii) to select (slc) the IoT-data source device ranked highest, from which its IoT-data source device data is fetched via the communication link (COL) and wherein the fetched is used to configure the IoT-data sink device due to its commissioning or to adapt or retire and replace current IoT-data sink device data of the IoT-data sink device.