Business processes are frequently executed within application systems that involve humans, computer systems as well as objects of the Internet of Things (IoT). Nevertheless, the usage of IoT technology for system supported process execution is still constrained by the absence of a common system architecture that manages the communication between both worlds. In this paper, we introduce an integrated approach for IoT-aware business process execution that exploits IoT for BPM by providing IoT data in a process-compatible way, providing an IoT data provenance framework, considering IoT data for interaction in a pre-defined process model, and providing wearable user interfaces with context-specific IoT data provision. The approach has been implemented on top of contemporary BPM modeling concepts and system technology. The introduced technique has evaluated extensively in different use cases in industry.

业务流程通常在涉及人，计算机系统以及物联网（IoT）对象的应用程序系统中执行。尽管如此，由于缺少管理两个世界之间通信的通用系统架构，因此仍然无法将IoT技术用于系统支持的流程执行。在本文中，我们介绍了一种用于IoT的业务流程执行的集成方法，该方法通过以兼容流程的方式提供IoT数据，提供IoT数据来源框架，考虑将IoT数据用于预定义流程中的交互，从而将IoT用于BPM。模型，并为可穿戴式用户界面提供特定于上下文的IoT数据提供。该方法已在当代BPM建模概念和系统技术之上实施。