OSMOSE: a Paradigm for the Liquid-Sensing Enterprise

With the spreading of sensors networks, the management of business reality has been progressively changed exploiting the inherent features of the future IoT and smart objects. Today’s enterprises need to become self-aware not only in terms of their networked ecosystem but also in face of their inner sub-systems and devices. Indeed, the integration of service and event technology, smart agents and “smart objects” enables enterprise innovation and competitiveness in a globalized economy. Those enterprises would be capable of sensing and reacting from physical to complex business incitements, maximizing their innovation potential and sustaining interoperability along the operational life cycle. This paper presents the OSMOSE paradigm for the liquid-sensing enterprise, a novel concept being developed in the context of the Future Internet to enable new business models for the sensing enterprise. Initial developments and a conceptual architecture are presented and illustrated with the help of an on-going industrial scenario.