Handling Service Level Agreements in IoT = Minding Rules + Log Analytics?

Abstract

With the rise of Internet of Things, end-users expect to obtain data from well-connected smart devices and stations through data services being provisioned in distributed architectures. Such services could be aggregated in a number of smart ways to provide the end-users and third-party applications with sophisticated data (e.g., weather data coupled with soil pollution), resulting in a growing number of service offerings to be requested. Service offerings that have been shortlisted for a certain data request (e.g., rainfall in a particular farming site) need to be ranked according to the end-users' preference. Service level agreements, i.e., the mutual responsibilities between the service provider and its consumers, address this sort of preference. Unfortunately, provisioning quality-aware services under this term still stays on the sidelines. In this paper, we propose a novel service architecture where the service level agreements shall be: (i) accumulated overtime on IoT service transactions; (ii) compiled when aggregating IoT services; (iii) used as a ranking criterion for suggesting IoT service offerings. We demonstrate our new approach in the service provisioning of agricultural datasets taken from a farming site of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.