An End-user Microservice-Based Lightweight Architecture for IoT

The rapid development of the Internet of Things has changed people’s lifestyles in recent years. Smart homes have entered people’s lives, and many smart home applications have emerged. However, the existing smart home applications are developed by the engineers in advanced and may not meet the individual needs of the users. Therefore, this paper proposes a design platform for lightweight IoT business processes for ordinary end-users. On our platform, users do not need to go through any programming operations, but only need some simple drag-and-drop operations to design a business process that meets their individual needs. In order to support the better operation of business processes, we use microservices as the operating environment of IoT applications, which not only improves the communication efficiency between services, but also greatly reduces the difficulty of accessing new IoT services and enriches the selection of services for end-users.