The Many Faces of Patterns in the Internet of Things
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Abstract
In recent years, a lot of attention has been given to patterns in the Internet of Things (IoT). In essence, these patterns provide well-known ways to solve problems commonly encountered in the IoT paradigm. However, despite this recognition, conceptualising patterns in the IoT has proven to be difficult. This is mainly because IoT patterns come in many shapes, forms and sizes, and can be abstracted from many levels of the system architecture. In fact, many patterns in the IoT are system-independent and can be abstracted from other fundamental aspects that make up the IoT. This seemingly broad variations of patterns has led to some confusion regarding what constitute a pattern in the IoT. This has raised many unanswered questions in the IoT pattern community, such as (i) if patterns are not only about objects, and if they reach far beyond software architecture, then what is an IoT pattern?, and (ii) what are the solution categories in which the underlying IoT patterns can be abstracted? With these questions in mind, we set out to perform a deeper analysis of the meaning of the word pattern in the context of the IoT. We discovered that the IoT patterns give us a standardised vocabulary to talk about structures larger than objects, modules and procedures. That is, patterns are, in fact, a literature that is ingrained in problem solving and design thinking in the holistic IoT domain.
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