An architecture for an automatic integration of IO-Link sensors into a system of systems

The use of sensor technology in companies is steadily increasing and until now there has been a lack of a fundamental architecture for making heterogeneous actuators and sensors available to the consumer in a uniform manner. In this paper, we will propose an architecture which supports protocol independent automatic integration and configuration of such devices into a system of systems. Measured values will be stored as SenML documents in a MQTT broker. The used IoT automation framework Eclipse Arrowhead assists consumers in finding required devices by use of metadata description.