Towards IoT Sensor Service, IoT Actuator Service and Web Service modules for a middleware supporting end-user driven collaborative service composition

Abstract

Modern software systems are increasingly characterized by uncertainties in the running context and user needs. These uncertainties and needs are difficult and challenging to predict at design time. While existing end-user driven service composition tools provide support for building composite IOT based services in order to meet user needs at run time, an environment that will enable end-users to create a collaboration of both web services and IOT based services in order to meet users requirement at while is yet to exist to the best of our knowledge. We therefore propose a novel architecture to address this gap. More specifically our contribution lies in designing and implementing a pluggable IOT based sensor and actuator environment that can be used to support composition of end-user driven collaboration of both IOT based services and other web services. We have also provided the validation of our designed architecture using a proof of concept scenario.