IA-CPS: Intelligent architecture for cyber-physical systems management

Abstract

Nowadays, the emergence of large-scale and highly distributed cyber-physical systems (CPSs) in applications including Internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, mobility, Big Data, and sensor networks involves that architecture models have to work in an open and highly dynamic world. This fact increasingly highlights the importance of designing real-time and intelligent CPSs that are capable of decision making. In this paper, an Intelligent Architecture model for CPS management (IA-CPS) based on online processing is proposed for this purpose. Specifically, it can manage simple and complex events based on a service-oriented architecture and directed by an event-driven architecture, using event processing technology as Complex Event Processing (CEP). The novelty of our approach relies on the fact that the proposed architecture is service-oriented, which models the functionalities of the event-driven system. This gives us the possibility to offer a flexible service catalog, allowing us to connect to the system on any kind of device and interact in different scenarios. The model has been applied to two use cases: processing images from video surveillance cameras, and processing of consumption data captured by water and energy sensors installed in end-user environments.