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computation, slim and lightweight solutions through all layers of Internet of
Things communication and applications.
2.6.2.5 Challenge the Trend to Complexity
The inherent trend to higher complexity of solutions on all levels will be
seriously questioned — at least with regard to minimum energy Internet of
Things devices and services.
Their communication with the access edges of the Internet of Things network
shall be optimized cross domain with their implementation space and it
shall be compatible with the correctness of the construction approach.
2.6.2.6 Disruptive Approaches
Given these special restrictions, non-standard, but already existing ideas
should be carefully checked again and be integrated into existing solutions,
and disruptive approaches shall be searched and researched with high priority.
This very special domain of the Internet of Things may well develop into its
most challenging and most rewarding domain — from a research point of view
and, hopefully, from an economical point of view as well.
2.7 Processes
The deployment of IoT technologies will significantly impact and change the
way enterprises do business as well as interactions between different parts of
the society, affecting many processes. To be able to reap the many potential
benefits that have been postulated for the IoT, several challenges regarding
the modelling and execution of such processes need to be solved in order to
see wider and in particular commercial deployments of IoT [103]. The special
characteristics of IoT services and processes have to be taken into account and
it is likely that existing business process modelling and execution languages
as well as service description languages such as USDL [106], will need to be
extended.
2.7.1 Adaptive and Event-driven Processes
One of the main benefits of IoT integration is that processes become more
adaptive to what is actually happening in the real world. Inherently, this is