SOA-Based Integration of the Internet of Things in Enterprise Services

Abstract

Advances in the areas of embedded systems, computing, and networking are leading to an infrastructure composed of millions of heterogeneous devices. These devices will not simply convey information but process it in transit, connect peer to peer, and form advanced collaborations. This "Internet of Things" infrastructure will be strongly integrated with the environment, and its integration with the enterprise systems will not only further blur the line between business IT systems and the real world, but will change the way we design, deploy, and use services. New opportunities can emerge for businesses, which can now closely collaborate with the real world. The work presented here proposes an architecture for an effective integration of the Internet of Things in enterprise services.

A Vision of a Future IoT Architecture Supporting Messaging, Storage, and Computation

“…A smartphone can stream video from the camera to remote location. The interface for this capability has similar specifications as in [4], [9].…”

“…As with the implementation in [4], this element can implement WS-notification standard in which services act as producers and consumers to push and pull messages to/from other services. Producers provide a subscription interface and consumers provide a notification interface.…”

“…As a middle-ware, services architectures allow application objects to communicate with one another irrespective of their programming language, their hardware and software platforms, or their networks. The ability to mash-up services further utilizes the diversified IoT's infrastructure [4]. Another reason to use a SOA and the focus of this paper is to enable concurrent processing and to exploit the available computational resources.…”

“…Already, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the subject of interests in the IoT's research community [2], [3], [4], [5]. For one reason, services have traditionally been used to provide generic facilities that may be used by a wide variety of distributed technology.…”

Planning and Scheduling for Dispersed and Collaborative Productive System

“…Several works adopted service-oriented architecture (SOA), in which Web Service (WS) is a popular instance of this architecture [2], [4], [5], and [6]. In [2] and [4] was introduced a method to specify the productive processes aiming at the automation and coordination of their activities and services.…”