Services Integration for Cyber Physical Systems

Abstract

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) address the interaction between the computation and the physical processes and entities, integrating them within the "cyber" world. Computers systems monitor and control the physical processes, through devices like sensors and actuators. Recent researches pointed out that middleware architecture are advantageous for CPS development. At their turn, physical devices have limited resources and computation power and are not always able to execute complex computation tasks. To assure adequate computational and physical resources, able to handle complex processes, some approaches proposed a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for CPS development. Using of Smart communication devices proved also to be efficient, due to their sensor type modules included. SOA provides to the users an integrated access and communication protocol which interacts with physical and software elements and facilitates the building of flexible systems, while preserving efficiency, scalability and security. This paper presents a CPS integrated transaction platform, which can be accessed using Smart devices, through mobile and wireless communication networks.