Extending Enterprise Architectures for Adopting the Internet of Things: Lessons Learned from the smartPORT Projects in Hamburg

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Authors

  • Ingrid Schirmer
  • Paul Drews
  • Sebastian Saxe
  • Ulrich Baldauf
  • Jöran Tesse
In many industries, companies are currently testing and adopting internet of things (IoT) technology. By adopting IoT, they seek to improve efficiency or to develop and offer new services. In current projects, a variety of IoT systems is used and gets interconnected with existing or newly developed application systems. Due to the integration of IoT and the related cloud systems, existing enterprise architecture (EA) models have to be extended. By drawing on the example of the Hamburg smartPORT initiative, we analyze the consequences of IoT projects on the enterprise architecture. As a result, we present an EA meta-model extension, which includes (1) sensor, physical object, smart brick, and fog system types, (2) a smart brick management database and (3) data streams, cloud systems and service applications. Furthermore, we discuss implications regarding a to-be architecture.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBusiness Information Systems : 19th International Conference, BIS 2016, Leipzig, Germany, July, 6-8, 2016, Proceedings
EditorsWitold Abramowicz, Rainer Alt, Bogdan Franczyk
Number of pages12
PublisherSpringer International Publishing AG
Publication date2016
Pages169-180
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-39425-1
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-39426-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventInternational Conference on Business Information Systems - BIS 2016: Smart Business Ecosystems - Leipzig, Germany
Duration: 06.07.201608.07.2016
Conference number: 19
http://bis.kie.ue.poznan.pl/bis2016/

    Research areas

  • Business informatics - Enterprise architecture, Internet of things, smartPORT, Smart brick