The intermediary concept is mostly used in distribution literature for actors intervening between production and consumption. In a business network perspective the concepts has a wider meaning. All actors are intermediaries in the sense that they make other actors indirectly related to each other (Snehota & Gadde 2001). With reference to the ARA model also all activities and all resources might be seen as intermediaries within a network´s activity pattern and resource constellation. Intermediaries intermediate in network processes. Intermediaries affect, and are affected by network processes. Intermediation is thus a network process that also has technological attributes in terms of relationship substance and network effects (Håkansson & Snehota (a.a) that are of special interest in an IoT context.