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Business processes are frequently executed within application systems that involve humans, computer systems as well as objects of the Internet of Things (IoT). While several works are emerging on combining BPM and the IoT, the exploitation of IoT technology for system supported process execution is still constrained by the absence of a common system architecture that manages the communication between both worlds. In this paper, we introduce an integrated approach for IoT-aware business process execution that exploits IoT for BPM by providing IoT data in a process-aware way, providing an IoT data provenance framework, considering IoT data for interaction in a pre-defined process model, and providing wearable user interfaces with context specific IoT data provision. The approach has been implemented and evaluated extensively in production industry. The results show that the application of IoT enhanced BPM leads to less machine stops.
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Schönig, S., Ackermann, L., Jablonski, S., Ermer, A. (2018). An Integrated Architecture for IoT-Aware Business Process Execution. In: Gulden, J., Reinhartz-Berger, I., Schmidt, R., Guerreiro, S., Guédria, W., Bera, P. (eds) Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2018 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 318. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91704-7_2
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