A Multifaceted Approach for Organising Patterns for the Internet of Things: A High-level Theoretical Discourse

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) consists of several patterns that address a variety of problems encountered in the design and construction of reference architectures. Essentially, these patterns represent a set of conventional solutions and technologies that are used in the IoT paradigm to create ambient intelligence. However, in order for the IoT practitioners to use these patterns effectively, a catalogue that groups and classifies them in a systematic manner is required. Such a catalogue must facilitate easy and quick retrieval of the pattern, and clearly describe the intended purpose of each pattern. At the moment, no such catalogue exists, and the reviewed catalogues in the literature are either cumbersome or address these issues inadequately. This makes it difficult for users and the IoT practitioners to easily choose the relevant pattern for the given problem. Due to the large number of the IoT patterns, it is difficult to organise them in a manner that facilitate systematic classification. In this study, we propose a methodical, fivestep approach by which we can arrange these patterns for easy identification. The nature of this paper is theoretical, thus we focus on exploring some linguistic theories and algebraic structures that make up the core essence of this multifaceted process.