Authors:
Philip Wright
and
Andrea Manieri
Affiliation:
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., Italy
Keyword(s):
Cloud, Internet of Things, Smart City, Arduino, Sensors, Raspberry PI, Pachube, Cosm, Xively, Nimbits, oVirt, NoSQL DB, CouchDB, ZABBIX.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Big Data Cloud Services
;
Cloud Computing
;
Cloud Computing Architecture
;
Cloud Computing Enabling Technology
;
Fundamentals
;
Platforms and Applications
;
Service Innovation
;
Service Monitoring and Control
;
Services Science
;
Virtualization Technologies
Abstract:
The digital convergence of IT, Network and Content produced during the last years has created a new landscape for the definition and delivery of ICT services to citizens. The massive introduction of hypervisors and virtualisation techniques has allowed the (self-service) provision of any resource (software, network, data) in a seamless way to Users and Applications. The term Future Internet was coined in EU to synthesize these concepts and refer to the novel architectures enabling the next generation of Internet applications.
The digital convergence includes also the so-called embedded systems that through Gateways connected to the Internet to provide a technical bridge to interact with sensors and actuators.
This paper introduces the initial findings from experimental work done in the context of ClouT, a EU-funded project aiming at defining and developing a common virtualisation layer, allowing the access and management of IoT devices, as well as Cloud Services, in the same way as a
ny other data.
The authors demonstrate and provide a simple way to design and implement a real infrastructure that satisfies the following requirements: cheap, easy to maintain, open source based, compatible and interoperable with different platforms and services. It is an example of how to make a public or a private Cloud capable of hosting data that comes from different kinds of sensors. Moreover this architecture allows the interconnection of all devices (Internet of Things, IoT) and its implementation is illustrated in detail.
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