  A common feature of the Internet of Things (IoT) is the high heterogeneity,
regarding network protocols, data formats, hardware and software platforms.
Aiming to deal with such a degree of heterogeneity, several frameworks have
applied the Model-Driven Development (MDD) to build IoT applications. On the
software architecture viewpoint, the literature has shown that the
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a promising style to address the
interoperability of entities composing these solutions. Some features of IoT
make it challenging to analyze the impact of design decisions on the SOA-based
IoT applications behavior. Thus, it is a key requirement to simulate the model
to verify whether the system performs as expected before its implementation.
Although the literature has identified that the SOA style is suitable for
addressing the interoperability, existing modelling languages do not consider
SOA elements as first-class citizens when designing IoT applications.
Furthermore, although existing MDD frameworks provide modeling languages
comprising well-defined syntax, they lack execution semantics, thus, are not
suitable for model execution and analysis. This work aims at addressing these
issues by introducing IoTDraw. The framework provides a fully OMG-compliant
executable modeling language for SOA-based IoT systems; thus, its
specifications can be implemented by any tool implementing OMG standards.
