Exploiting the Internet of Things for Systems Engineering: Breaking Down the Barriers between Siloed Engineering Teams

Sprint is an FP7 funded research project which looks to deal with the interoperability challenges facing Systems engineering with the advent of increased complexity. The Sprint acronym stands for "Software Platform for the Integration and Engineering of Things". \´Things\´ could be virtual or physical components that can be referenced and worked with during the development lifecycle of an engineering project. The purpose of this paper is to make the case for better collaboration and propose a solution which could be implemented.