Agent abstractions for engineering IoT systems: A case study in smart healthcare

Despite the rapid progresses in IoT research, a general principled software engineering approach for the systematic development of IoT systems and applications is still missing. In this paper, we show that agent-oriented concepts and abstractions can play a key role in the design and development of IoT systems and applications, and could represent the ground on which to shape a new IoT-oriented software engineering discipline. A case study in the area of smart healthcare is adopted as a running example to ground the discussion.