CAiSE’13

Short-bio

Sonja Meyer works as an Associate Researcher and PhD Student at the SAP CEC St. Gallen and the Software Engineering Group at the University of Fribourg focusing on business process modeling.  She holds a diploma degree on Computer Science and Engineering fulfilled at the Hamburg University of Technology, Germany and the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. Before joining the research department of SAP Switzerland she gained experience in technology consulting of SAP NetWeaver at industrial projects in the public transport sector as well as project management and CEO assistance.

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) has grown in recent years to a huge branch of research: RFID, sensors and actuators as typical IoT devices are increasingly used as resources integrated into new value added applications of the Future Internet and are intelligently combined using standardised software services. While most of the current work on IoT integration focuses on areas of the actual technical implementation, little attention has been given to the integration of the IoT paradigm and its devices coming with native software components as resources in business processes of traditional enterprise resource planning systems. In this paper, we identify and integrate IoT resources as a novel automatic resource type on the business process layer beyond the classical human resource task-centric view of the business process model in order to face expanding resource planning challenges of future enterprise environments.