| Title |
A Commodity Sbc-Edge Cluster For Smart Cities |
| ID_Doc |
726 |
| Authors |
Qureshi B.; Kawlaq K.; Koubaa A.; Saeed B.; Younis M. |
| Year |
2019 |
| Published |
2nd International Conference on Computer Applications and Information Security, ICCAIS 2019 |
| DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CAIS.2019.8769500 |
| Abstract |
The commodity Single Board Computers (SBCs) are increasingly becoming powerful and can execute standard operating systems and mainstream workloads. In the context of cloud-based smart city applications, SBCs can be utilized as Edge computing devices reducing the network communication. In this paper, we investigate the design and implementation of a SBC based edge cluster (SBC-EC) framework for a smart parking application. Since SBCs are resource constrained devices, we devise a container based framework for a lighter foot-print. Kubernetes was used as an orchestration tool to orchestrate various containers in the framework. To validate our approach, we implemented a proof-of-concept of the SBC based Edge cluster for a smart parking application, as a possible ioT use-case. Our implementation shows that, the use of SBC devices at the edge of a cloud based smart parking application is a cost effective and low energy, green computing solution. The proposed framework can be extended to similar cloud based applications in the context of a smart city. © 2019 IEEE. |
| Author Keywords |
Edge Computing; Kubernetes; Single Board Computers; Smart Cities Systems |
