A study of extending BPMN to integrate IoT applications

This paper proposes a system integrating device manager, IoT Solution, and Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) tools. With these tools, domain expert can draw the process with specifying how to connect devices all together. Moreover, domain expert can specify what kind of device is needed instead of explicitly specifying which device is needed, which addresses the IoT feature, mobility. This system adopts BPMN as process definition standard and relative tools, Activiti Engine, Activiti Modeler, and Activiti Explorer. With this system, the job of deploying device is easy; all kind of users can use the same language to communicate; domain expert and developer can focus on important business process or important logic without worrying about the communication details.