IoT Roadmap: Support for Internet of Things Software Systems Engineering

TL;DR

This paper presents a comprehensive roadmap for IoT software systems engineering, organizing key concepts and evidence to guide the specification, design, and implementation of IoT applications.

Contribution

It provides a structured organization of IoT concepts and evidence to support IoT software systems engineering, based on experimental studies.

Findings

Organized IoT concepts and evidence for engineering practices

Supports defining essential aspects of IoT applications

Facilitates discussion and decision-making in IoT projects

Abstract

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 Universit\`e 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.