Mobile Cloud Business Process Management System for the Internet of Things: Review, Challenges and Blueprint

The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a comprehensive environment that consists of large number of sensors and mediators interconnecting heterogeneous physical objects to the Internet. IoT applications can be found in many areas such as smart city, smart workplace, smart plants, smart agriculture and various ubiquitous computing areas. Meanwhile, Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) has become a successful and efficient solution for coordinated management and optimised utilisation of resources/entities. However, managing large scale connected heterogeneous IoT entities in BPMS is facing many issues that were not considered in the past BPMS. Without fully understanding the behaviour, capability and state of the thing, the BPMS can fail to manage the IoT integrated information systems. In this paper, we analyse existing BPMS for IoT and identify the limitations and their drawbacks. Then, we try to improve the existing works with the elastic mobile cloud resources. The aim of this paper is to provide a guidance to Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) disciplines what are the issues in BPMS for IoT and how MCC can be the promising solution to address issues and overcome the challenges.