| Title |
A Commodity SBC-Edge Cluster for Smart Cities |
| ID_Doc |
44655 |
| Authors |
Qureshi, B; Kawlaq, K; Koubaa, A; Saeed, B; Younis, M |
| Title |
A Commodity SBC-Edge Cluster for Smart Cities |
| Year |
2019 |
| Published |
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| DOI |
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| 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. |
| Author Keywords |
Smart Cities Systems; Single Board Computers; Edge Computing; Kubernetes |
| Index Keywords |
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| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S) |
| EID |
WOS:000493114600052 |
| WoS Category |
Computer Science, Information Systems; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications |
| Research Area |
Computer Science |
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