Executing IoT Processes in BPMN 2.0: Current Support and Remaining Challenges

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) has seen a vast surge in recent years, both in academia and in industry. Business processes are starting to take advantage of IoT to interact with the increasingly connected and dynamic physical environment. Recent literature has focused on analysing how this interaction between processes and IoT devices can be modelled, i.e. how the process can be described for discussion purposes. However, little attention is given to configuring the execution of these IoT-based processes. IoT-enhanced processes should indeed be able to incorporate IoT devices in the endeavour of process execution. This paper discusses research challenges in IoT process configuration and execution using the executable Business Process Model and Notation 2.0 (BPMN 2.0) standard. As such, we constitute an agenda for future research.