Multi-Tenant IoT Service Management towards an IoT App Economy

Orchestrating the Internet of Things (IoT) is complex. Service modularization can reduce this complexity. Therefore, service-oriented management is a promising paradigm. For reasons such as privacy and performance, managing services site-locally is very suitable for the IoT. The desired service-oriented site-local IoT management requires a suitable service management. However, due to the lack of globally connected IoT deployments, there is little research regarding service management in our envisioned setting. We identify requirements for a service-oriented site-locally deployed IoT with central global App stores. Such a management architecture will become the basis for an IoT App economy. We focus on a multi-tenant setting on all levels: development, distribution, and running.