IOT, Smart Homes and Zigbee Simulation
Hassan Rajaei, Farbod Mirzaei · 2017
Internet of Things (IoT) is predicted to connect more than 50 billion devices to each other via the Internet by 2020. Smart homes and buildings are primary targets to continuously monitor the connected devices, collect data, process them, and provide feedback where and when it is needed. In this chain process of IoT, there are numerous nontrivial communications and computational issues. In this paper, we focus on smart homes and specifically on ZigBee, as a smart data collection element. We view several topologies and configurations using ZigBee connectivity in a typical smart home. In addition, we report a simulation study to shed some light on how ZigBee networks perform. To transfer the huge amount of collected data from smart homes in a timely manner and process it, we use the Fifth Generation (5G) of wireless network, and for processing the data we use Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) interacted with cloud.