A Conceptual Data Model and Its Automatic Implementation for IoT-Based Business Intelligence Applications

Abstract

In the context of Industry 4.0, the analysis of Internet-of-Things (IoT) data with business intelligence (BI) technologies has acquired high relevance. However, designing and implementing IoT-based BI applications is hard for several reasons. Therefore, we propose a novel conceptual data model based on UML profiles and model-driven architecture (MDA) for modeling and implementing IoT-based BI applications. Our approach provides highly readable data models of IoT, which are also compatible with traditional BI data models. Furthermore, it could help in the implementation process of the IoT subsystem through automatic code generation.