Advances in the areas of embedded systems, computing, and networking  Traditionally, the systems of an enterprise controlling physical processes (like manufacturing, logistics execution, energy monitoring, building automation, etc.) use different standards for data and communication than its business software systems. We see a paradigm change as the former breed of systems increasingly adopt the standards of the latter. It is expected that this trend will continue, while in parallel the number of connected devices will explode. As we are moving towards the "Internet of Things" as depicted by [3] , millions of devices will be interconnected, providing and consuming information available on the network and cooperate. As these devices need to interoperate, the service-oriented approach seems to be a promising solution, i.e. each device should offer its functionality as standard services, while in parallel it is possible to discover and invoke new functionality from other services on-demand. As depicted in Figure 1 , future infrastructures will be service-oriented. As such, new functionality will be introduced by combining services in a cross-layer form, i.e. serService
Architecture for effective integration of the Internet of Things in enterprise services has been proposed by REF ).
SOA-Based Integration of the Internet of Things in Enterprise Services
2009 IEEE International Conference on Web Services
2009 IEEE International Conference on Web Services
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