Metodología para la creación de aplicaciones basadas en microservicios para soluciones de internet de las cosas en ambientes de vida asistidos

Abstract

Microservices along with technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing, among others, have revolutionized the business model of companies oriented to provide assistance, monitoring and surveillance services in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL); However, the development of applications based on microservices, breaks the traditional software development scheme and even more, the organizational scheme, being an architecture that is increasingly accepted. On the other hand, the agile methodologies of software development stand out for their simplicity, both in their learning and in their application, allowing those who use them to obtain a reliable software product of quality and with a design that faces continuous changes with early deliveries; with this study the adoption of agile software development methodologies with microservices architectures is motivated and an instance of it is presented for software solutions in IoT enviroments for AAL. Consequently, this study presents MicroIoT, a methodology for the definition, creation and deployment of microservices based on agile methodologies, for IoT solutions deployed in AAL, which is aligned with the DevOps organizational approach, which adequately covers the development and operations on microservices. In addition, an IoT software system for AAL has been designed and implemented, as an instance developed with the proposed methodology. MicroIoT has been evaluated empirically through a quasi-experiment carried out with professionals and students of the Systems Engineering Carrer in the University of Cuenca.