Towards an IoT-Oriented Software Engineering Methodology

As research in the Internet-of-Things area progresses, and a multitude of proposals exist to solve various problems, the need for a general principled software engineering approach for the systematic development of IoT systems and applications arises. In this chapter, by synthesizing from the state of the art, we frame the key concepts and abstractions that revolve around the design and development of IoT systems and applications and draft a software engineering methodology centred on these abstractions.