An architecture-centric process for service oriented systems development: Developing for the intelligent pavement

There is a growing tendency in modern enterprises to understand business activities from a service-oriented perspective. The alignment of business and service-oriented architectures, and the provision of methods or techniques to help in such gap have become, therefore, crucial aspects in service-oriented software development. In this work we present a proposal that aim to solve this gap by means of the definition of an architecture-centric method. This paper present the development of a service-oriented system that provide services for the citizens using intelligent pavement. Key benefits of our proposal are: the provision of a method for the alignment of business and service-oriented software, and, the definition of a new business model that can be used to understand the “structure” of a business and to complement other well-known business models such as business value or business process.