An IoT Enabled Framework for Smart Buildings Empowered with Cloud & Fog Infrastructures
Hira Fayyaz, Zia Ul Rehman, Sagheer Abbas · 2019
Modern Urban development of Internet of Things (IoT) are appropriate candidates for the initiative of Smart City; which aims at integrating physical environments into computing & communication technologies leveraging maximum benefit in terms of resource utilization for optimal services. One substantial constituent of Smart City is Smart Building. A smart building is adequately intelligent to sense contextual environment and take smart decisions, competently employing available resource thus being more accurate, energy efficient and secure. Smart Building utilizes systems which are highly complex, dynamic natured and heterogeneous. Considering the functional requirements of Smart Building this research work emphasize that cloud has the potential of supporting complex computations, long term analytics and storage facilities for bulk amount of data being produced. It further specifies that cloud performance could be enhanced if innovative paradigm of Fog Computing is introduced along with cloud solution. The proposed Internet of Things (IoT) framework of Smart Building is deliberated with all associated benefits and apprehension of cloud Fog paradigm. Application model of the framework along with it processing modules is also demonstrated in research effort. Performance metrics are evaluated with cloud deployments and with cloud fog deployments for further clarity.