A Process to Non-invasively Augment Legacy IoT Systems Using Business Processes and Microservices
Journal
International Conference on the Internet of Things
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2024
Author(s)
Abstract
Nowadays, Internet of Things (IoT) systems can be found everywhere. Thereby, the IoT systems' software greatly varies in terms of openness and extensibility. Especially older legacy IoT systems only provide limited means of interacting and extending their functionality due to proprietary and closed software interfaces. Nevertheless, IoT systems evolve constantly based on new functional requirements and the need for integration with new systems and IoT devices. In this work we investigate the use of Business Process Management (BPM) technologies in combination with Microservices to augment IoT systems in a non-invasive, lightweight manner focusing on integration, data augmentations, and human-in-the-loop. We start by analyzing the interfaces and processes of a smart factory as a representative legacy system to identify missing functionality, which we generalize into functional requirements for IoT systems. We show how these requirements can be addressed using BPM and microservices based on a discussion of suitable BPM concepts and software architecture, which is accompanied by a prototypical implementation. These results inform our proposal and discussion of a generic development process to non-invasively augment processoriented legacy IoT systems using BPM and microservices.
Language
English (United States)
Keywords
Smart factory
business process management
microservices
software architecture
retrofitting
domain-driven design
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
ACM
Pages
9
Event Title
14th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2024)
Event Location
Oulu, Finland
Event Date
Nov. 19 - 22, 2024
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2024_IoT_BPM_and_Microservices.pdf
Size
2.15 MB
Format
Adobe PDF
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