Roaming for crowdsourced internet of things (iot)

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, if executed by a processor of a user equipment, will cause said user equipment to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, at the user equipment, a first message from a first transmitting device;
• determining, from the first message, that the first transmitting device is associated with a first organization, and wherein the user equipment is associated with a second organization;
• determining, using a data structure installed on the user equipment, that roaming is allowed for the first transmitting device from the first organization to the second organization, and responsive to this determination,
• transmitting at least an identifier of the first transmitting device and location information of the user equipment to a roaming exchange for transmission to an Internet of Things (IoT) platform of the first organization;
• receiving, at the user equipment, a second message from a second transmitting device;
• determining, from the second message, that the second transmitting device is associated with a third organization;
• and
• determining, using the data structure installed on the user equipment, that roaming is not allowed for the second transmitting device from the third organization to the second organization, and responsive to this determination, ignoring the received second message.

A user equipment (UE) for a crowdsourced Internet-of-Things (IoT) solution, the UE comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, if executed by the processor, cause the UE to carry out operations including:
• receiving, at the user equipment, a first message from a first transmitting device,
• determining, from the first message, that the first transmitting device is associated with a first organization, and wherein the user equipment is associated with a second organization,
• determining, using a data structure installed on the user equipment, that roaming is allowed for the first transmitting device from the first organization to the second organization, and responsive to this determination,
• transmitting at least an identifier of the first transmitting device and location information of the user equipment to a roaming exchange for transmission to an Internet of Things (IoT) platform of the first organization,
• receiving, at the user equipment, a second message from a second transmitting device,
• determining, from the second message, that the second transmitting device is associated with a third organization, and
• determining, using the data structure installed on the user equipment, that roaming is not allowed for the second transmitting device from the third organization to the second organization, and responsive to this determination, ignoring the received second message.