Dynamic discovery and deployment of sensors and leaf devices as services in a distributed environment

A processing system, comprising:

• a memory comprising computer-executable instructions;
• and
• a processor configured to execute the computer-executable instructions and cause the processing system to:
• discover, over a connection, a sensor device by a discovery node of a distributed system;
• deploy a custom broker, by the discovery node, to connect to the sensor device, wherein deployment of the custom broker is based on a common protocol of the custom broker and the sensor device;
• connect, the discovery node, via the custom broker, to the sensor device;
• read, by the custom broker, data from the sensor device;
• onboard the sensor device onto the distributed system, wherein the onboarding comprises mapping a unique sensor device identifier from the data to metadata associated with one or more applications on the distributed system;
• and
• add sensor device data to a sensor device inventory on the distributed system, to represent the sensor device as a resource abstraction, wherein the resource abstraction can be instantiated as a service.

A method for integration and deployment of sensor devices as services in a distributed system, comprising:

• deploying a custom broker, by a discovery node of a distributed system, to connect to a sensor device, wherein the deploying is based on a common protocol of the custom broker and the sensor device;
• reading, by the custom broker, data from the sensor device;
• representing the sensor device as a resource abstraction, wherein the resource abstraction can be instantiated as a service;
• and
• reconfiguring settings of one or more applications, to replace the sensor device associated with the one or more applications with a second sensor device, wherein the second sensor device is represented as a second resource abstraction instantiated as a second service.