IoT Roadmap: Support for Internet of Things Software Systems Engineering
This work addresses the need for systematic engineering approaches in IoT software development, but it appears incremental as it organizes existing concepts rather than introducing new methods.
The paper tackles the challenge of defining IoT software systems by developing a roadmap based on experimental studies, resulting in a structured organization of concepts and evidence to guide project teams in specifying, designing, and implementing IoT applications.
The Roadmap is performed in the context of a Ph.D. research in collaboration between the Experimental Software Engineering Group, from the Systems Engineering and Computing Program of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ) and the Laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation Control, Mechanical engineering and Computer Science (LAMIH UMR CNRS 8201) in the Universitè Polytechnique Hauts-de-France (UPHF). The Roadmap resulted from an investigation on the particularities of IoT applications. It is the concrete organization of the concepts and evidence gathered from different experimental studies. It comes to support the definition of IoT software systems, with specific items for the project team to discuss and define the essential aspects related to the specifying, designing, and implementing an IoT application.