Modeling, Executing and Monitoring IoT-Aware Processes with BPM Technology

Abstract

Enhancing business process management (BPM) with IoT capabilities offers promising perspectives for bridging the gap between digital processes and physical world. Although there exist many approaches for modeling IoT-aware processes, only few of them enable executing and monitoring these processes. This paper gives insights into our approach to model, execute and monitor IoT-aware processes by extending the Business Process Model and Notation 2.0 (BPMN 2.0) with IoT-specific artifacts and events. A particular focus of this paper is put on the engine enabling the execution and monitoring of IoT-aware processes. It has been fully implemented and validated for various IoT-aware processes. Due to the web-based access to the execution engine and loosely coupling IoT services, the approach may be applied in a wide variety of application domains.