Tenants and users definition

• Tenants PaaS (creator)
  • Represents an entity that will create monitoring services to be published in the marketplace
  • Defines thing and observation types involved in the service
  • A new tenant PaaS is created when a new user is registered with the role Creator

• Tenant SaaS (follower)
  • Represents an entity, could be a company, that will consume different services from the marketplace
  • The user who owns the tenant selects the services he wants to subscribe to and pays for them
  • The user who owns the tenant can invite other users to his tenant
  • Users invited to the tenant consume all the services the tenant is subscribed to, according to the access control policies (actors) assigned to them
  • A new tenant SaaS is created when a new user is registered with the role Follower

For all tenants, PaaS and SaaS:

• There is a fixed cost per tenant
• Multiple users can be invited to the tenant, without any extra cost