Design of a model-driven platform for IoT event stream processing

Enterprises are increasingly adopting IoT in their applications and business processes. The processing of IoT data, such that it can be integrated into applications, poses a significant challenge. Model-driven integration platforms support enterprises with overcoming this challenge. However, while these solutions are already available, organisations seeking to develop or integrate their own platform face a challenge, as current research does not yet describe architectures for model-driven integration platforms in the IoT domain. This paper presents a novel architecture of an integration platform, based on a literature review of existing solutions. Validation with enterprise architects shows that the proposed architecture aids enterprises with developing a model-driven integration platform for IoT. Additionally, a prototype is developed and validated with end- users, which shows that the proposed design contributes to resolving the integration challenges integration developers face.