Transforming IoT Events to Meaningful Business Events on the Edge: Implementation for Smart Farming Application

Dimitris Gkoulis (), Cleopatra Bardaki, George Kousiouris and Mara Nikolaidou
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Dimitris Gkoulis: Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, 17778 Athens, Greece
Cleopatra Bardaki: Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, 17778 Athens, Greece
George Kousiouris: Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, 17778 Athens, Greece
Mara Nikolaidou: Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University of Athens, 17778 Athens, Greece

Future Internet, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-23

Abstract: This paper focuses on Internet of Things (IoT) architectures and knowledge generation out of streams of events as the primary elements concerning the creation of user-centric IoT services. We provide a general, symmetrical IoT architecture, which enables two-way bidirectional communication between things and users within an application domain. We focus on two main components of the architecture (i.e., Event Engine and Process Engine) that handle event transformation by implementing parametric Complex Event Processing (CEP). More specifically, we describe and implement the transformation cycle of events starting from raw IoT data to their processing and transformation of events for calculating information that we need in an IoT-enabled application context. The implementation includes a library of composite transformations grouping the gradual and sequential steps for transforming basic IoT events into business events, which include ingestion, event splitting, and calculation of measurements’ average value. The appropriateness and possibility of inclusion and integration of the implementation in an IoT environment are demonstrated by providing our implementation for a smart farming application domain with four scenarios that each reflect a user’s requirements. Further, we discuss the quality properties of each scenario. Ultimately, we propose an IoT architecture and, specifically, a parametric CEP model and implementation for future researchers and practitioners who aspire to build IoT applications.

Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT); Complex Event Processing; event-driven architecture; smart farming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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