Towards a General Software Engineering Methodology for the Internet of Things

TL;DR

This paper proposes a comprehensive software engineering methodology tailored for IoT systems, synthesizing current research to establish key concepts and abstractions for systematic development.

Contribution

It introduces a general, principled approach for IoT software engineering based on synthesized key concepts and abstractions from existing research.

Findings

Framework for IoT system design and development

Identification of core abstractions and concepts

Guidelines for systematic IoT application engineering

Abstract

As research in the Internet of Thing area progresses, and a multitude of proposals exist to solve a variety of problems, the need for a general principled software engineering approach for the systematic development of IoT systems and applications arises. In this paper, by synthesizing form the state of the art in the area, we attempt at framing the key concepts and abstractions that revolve around the design and development of IoT systems and applications, and draft a software engineering methodology centered on these abstractions.