extending a container orchestration system application programming interface (API) to handle objects that specify components of the application; and

executing an application representation using the extended container orchestration system API, including instantiation of one or more services that define a data stream path from a sensor to a device, the data stream path including the sensor, a driver that defines how information from the sensor is handled, the device, an actuator that defines how inputs are applied to the device, wherein an analytics unit performs data processing on an input and fuses data stream paths from multiple sensors to generate an augmented output by identifying temporal and spatial correspondences between the data stream paths.