TY - GEN
T1 - A Collaborative Cyber-Physical Microservices Platform – the SITL-IoT Case
AU - Gonçalves, Carlos
AU - Osório, A. Luís
AU - Camarinha-Matos, Luís M.
AU - Dias, Tiago M.
AU - Tavares, José
N1 - Funding Information:
The research conducted by GIATSI/ISEL/IPL was developed in collaboration with the SOCOLNET scientific network and its ARCON-ACM initiative. The ANSR/SINCRO, BP/HORUS, and FORDESI/SITL-IoT-PT-2020 projects partially supported this research. Partial support also from the Center of Technology and Systems ? UNINOVA, and the Portuguese FCT Foundation (project UIDB/00066/2020), and the European Commission (project DiGiFoF). We also recognize the excellent contributions from Bruno Serras as a research fellow.
Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. The research conducted by GIATSI/ISEL/IPL was developed in collaboration with the SOCOLNET scientific network and its ARCON-ACM initiative. The ANSR/SINCRO, BP/HORUS, and FORDESI/SITL-IoT-PT-2020 projects partially supported this research. Partial support also from the Center of Technology and Systems – UNINOVA, and the Portuguese FCT Foundation (project UIDB/00066/2020), and the European Commission (project DiGiFoF). We also recognize the excellent contributions from Bruno Serras as a research fellow.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/11/22
Y1 - 2021/11/22
N2 - Managing heterogeneous software and hardware artifacts from multiple suppliers is a complex and challenging process. The integration of sensors, actuators, and their controllers, modeled as IoT elements, also presents significant challenges. Typically, a vendor supplies one or more parts, each one with its proprietary interface, which may raise vendor lock-in and supplier dependencies that can compromise the replacement of some of the artifacts by equivalent ones from competing vendors. The research presented in this paper addresses such challenges in the context of the SITL-IoT project aiming at transforming an industrial agri-food environment towards an open, integrated system-of-systems. We present and discuss a reference implementation of a collaborative platform to simplify the management of different artifacts, supplied by alternative suppliers, modeled as services. More specifically, the concepts of ISystem (Informatic System), CES (Cooperation Enabled Service), and Service are used to manage the different elements that compose an agri-food environment transparently and uniformly. We argue that the adopted model simplifies the collaboration among technology suppliers along the life cycle maintenance and evolution of their enabled products.
AB - Managing heterogeneous software and hardware artifacts from multiple suppliers is a complex and challenging process. The integration of sensors, actuators, and their controllers, modeled as IoT elements, also presents significant challenges. Typically, a vendor supplies one or more parts, each one with its proprietary interface, which may raise vendor lock-in and supplier dependencies that can compromise the replacement of some of the artifacts by equivalent ones from competing vendors. The research presented in this paper addresses such challenges in the context of the SITL-IoT project aiming at transforming an industrial agri-food environment towards an open, integrated system-of-systems. We present and discuss a reference implementation of a collaborative platform to simplify the management of different artifacts, supplied by alternative suppliers, modeled as services. More specifically, the concepts of ISystem (Informatic System), CES (Cooperation Enabled Service), and Service are used to manage the different elements that compose an agri-food environment transparently and uniformly. We argue that the adopted model simplifies the collaboration among technology suppliers along the life cycle maintenance and evolution of their enabled products.
KW - Collaborative networks
KW - Cyber-physical systems
KW - Distributed systems
KW - Internet of things
KW - Microservices
KW - Systems integration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85120528636&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-85969-5_38
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-85969-5_38
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85120528636
SN - 978-3-030-85968-8
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 411
EP - 420
BT - Smart and Sustainable Collaborative Networks 4.0 - 22nd IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Camarinha-Matos, Luis M.
A2 - Boucher, Xavier
A2 - Boucher, Xavier
A2 - Afsarmanesh, Hamideh
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
T2 - 22nd IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2021
Y2 - 22 November 2021 through 24 November 2021
ER -