Internet of Things Architecture

Create
Physical-
Entity View

Create IoT

Context View

Requirement process

-- Domain-
model
analysis

Threat

analysis

Requirements

engineering

Choose

tactics

Make

design

choices

Views

mapping

of

require-

ments

Derive

functional

view

Derive

information

view

Derive

operation-

al and

deploy-

ment view

Derive

informa-

tion view

Physical

properties

of interest.

Identified

resources

and Virtual

Entities.

Impact of

risks and

identified

mitigation

strategies

on

information

and data

model.

Requirements

related to

information.

Design

choices

pertinent to

information

and data.

Identified

FCs and

the

informa-

tion to be

exchanged

between

them.

Derive

operation-

al and

deploy-

ment view

Physical

Entities and

the basic

relation-

ships and

distributions

of said

Entities.

Identified

devices,

resources,

services, and

users.

Implications

of identified

security

risks on

operation

and

deployment.

Requirements

related to

information.

Design

choices

pertinent to

deployment

and

operation.

Indications

on

operation

from

interact-

tions view.

Informa-

tion on life

cycle,

distribution,

and

hierarchy of

information.

Table 11 : Overview of IoT architecting activities and actions (left columns) and what relevant input one derives from other IoT architecting activities

and actions (horizontal). See Figure 67 for a depiction of these activities and actions.