Mobile Cloud Business Process Management System for the Internet of Things: A Survey

TL;DR

This survey reviews the integration of Business Process Management Systems with IoT, highlighting challenges and limitations from a Mobile Cloud Computing perspective to guide future research.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of existing BPMS for IoT, identifying key limitations and open challenges from a mobile cloud perspective.

Findings

Identifies limitations of current BPMS in managing IoT heterogeneity

Highlights open challenges in IoT-aware BPMS development

Discusses the impact of Mobile Cloud Computing on IoT BPMS

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a comprehensive environment that consists of a large number of smart devices interconnecting heterogeneous physical objects to the Internet. Many domains such as logistics, manufacturing, agriculture, urban computing, home automation, ambient assisted living and various ubiquitous computing applications have utilised IoT technologies. Meanwhile, Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) have become a successful and efficient solution for coordinated management and optimised utilisation of resources/entities. However, past BPMS have not considered many issues they will face in managing large scale connected heterogeneous IoT entities. Without fully understanding the behaviour, capability and state of the IoT entities, the BPMS can fail to manage the IoT integrated information systems. In this paper, we analyse existing BPMS for IoT and identify the limitations and their drawbacks based on Mobile Cloud Computing perspective. Later, we discuss a number of open challenges in BPMS for IoT.