Service Platform for Automated IoT Service Provisioning

The provisioning of IoT services should be automated as fully as possible in order to achieve wide user acceptance and profitability for IoT service provider. To reach this goal we have identified three objectives. First, the system should be able to communicate with different manufacturers´ devices. In the design of our service platform architecture we applied the Service Oriented Device Architecture approach where the device is encapsulated as a Device Service to offer data on a higher semantic level to the services. Second, for the IoT service developer it should be easy to implement the receiving of the data from the device attached to the service. We use JSON objects and Restful API as the implementation technologies for the communication between the components in the system. Third, the connection of the user´s devices to IoT services should be automated so that only those services for which the user has the required devices are made orderable for her/him.