Tenants and users definition

• Tenants PaaS (creator)
  • Represents an entity that will create monitoring services to be published in the marketplace. It 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, and will pay for them.
  • A new tenant SaaS is created when a new user is registered with the role Creator
  • Users invited to the tenant consume all the services the tenant is subscribed to, according to the access control policies (actors) assigned to the user.

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

• Users
  • Can be creators, follower admin or invited followers