3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving, by the IoT platform, the appliance data; determining, by the IoT platform, the identity of the appliance based on the appliance data; and transmitting, by the IoT platform to the communication module, the appliance-specific data based on the identity of the appliance.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: receiving, by the IoT platform, the appliance data; determining, by the IoT platform, the identity of the appliance based on the appliance data; and transmitting, by the IoT platform to the communication module, the appliance-specific data based on the identity of the appliance. 6. The method of claim 3 , wherein the step of determining the identity of the appliance further comprises: determining, by a device manager of the IoT platform, a group of appliances in which the appliance is classified, the group of appliances in which the appliance is classified being one of a plurality of groups of appliances; determining, by the device manager, a selected service end point of the IoT platform, the selected service end point being one of a plurality of service end points, each service end point of the plurality of service end points corresponding to at least one group of appliances of the plurality of groups of appliances, and the selected service end point corresponding to the group of appliances in which the appliance is classified; transmitting, by the device manager to the selected service end point; the appliance data; and determining, by the selected service end point, the identity of the appliance based on the appliance data.