Business integration of industrial communications with Cloud computing

Industrial communications are influenced by the emerging Cloud trend, being more and more service-oriented. The access model to on-demand provisioned infrastructure is generic considered hereby as driven by VISA (Virtual Instrumentation Software Architecture) and being an extension of the “Measurement-as-a-Service”. Aggregation of the industrial instrumentation into the Cloud is based on the business execution logic. This paper describes a method for exposing as web services the VISA instruments, and proposes an architecture, based on BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) and ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), to integrate, at business level, the Cloud provisioned elements based on the models of virtual instrumentation extended as IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service).