IoT Cloud Integration

Content
• Background
• IoT
• Cloud
• Cloud and IoT Integrations
• Challenges
• Applications
• Open Issue
Research Methodologies
Background
Background : IoT
• A world-wide network of interconnected objects uniquely
addressable, based on standard communication protocols

• Important aspects
• Wireless Sensor Network
• A network consisting of several sensor nodes communicating in wireless network
• Addressing
• Ability to identify each device in a system
• Middleware
• Provide an abstraction layer between heterogeneous things and its application
IoT Characteristics
• Pervasive displacement
• Placed in everywhere and in everything
• Limited reachability
• Possibly only reached in a specific area
• Real world component
• Attached to every object
• Limited computational capability
• Source of (big) data
Background : Cloud
• Model for enabling on-demand access to a shared pool of computing
resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal
service provider interaction
• Resources : networks, servers, storage, applications, and services
• Important aspects
• Layered architecture and service model
• datacenter (hardware), infras- tructure, platform, and application
• Types of clouds
• Private, community, public, hybrid
• Economical advantages
• User don’t need to invest in infrastructure
• Technical advantages
• Energy efficiency, flexibility, elasticity, manageable resource allocation
Cloud Characteristics
• Centralized displacement
• Placed in single/several datacenter
• Ubiquitous reachability
• Can be reached from anywhere
• Virtual component
• Resources are virtually provided
• Unlimited computational capability
• Manage (big) data
IoT and Cloud Comparison
IoT Cloud Integration
IoT Cloud Integration
• IoT are resource limited but having real world component

• Cloud are resource unlimited but having virtual component

• Why don’t we integrate both?

Why integrate both?
• IoT can benefit from the virtually unlimited capabilities and resources
of Cloud to compensate its technological constraints
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• Cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real
world things

• Cloud can provide the intermediate layer (middleware)between the

things and the applications
Benefit
• Communication
• Cloud offers an effective and cheap solution to connect, track, and manage
any thing from anywhere
• Enable monitoring and control from anywhere
• Storage
• IoT produce huge amount of data : volume, variety, velocity
• Cloud can manage (big) data produced by IoT system
• Computation
• Offers virtually unlimited processing capabilities
• On demand computing usage
Typical Architecture
Cloud
Applications
Smart Healthcare
Healthcare
• Simplify healthcare process by enabling cooperation among different
entities
• Collecting patients data through wireless body area network
• Delivering the data to a medical center’s Cloud for storage and
processing
• Properly managing information provided by sensors
• Guaranteeing ubiquitous access to, or sharing of, medical data as
Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR)
Smart Healthcare with IoT Cloud
Smart city and communities
• Services that interact with the surrounding environment, thus
creating new opportunities for contextualization and geo-awareness
• Collective intelligence will lead to better informed decision making
processes and empower citizens, through participation and
interaction
• Data from city based collaborative sensing
• Surveillance camera
• Citizen smartphone
• V2V-V2I
• Air quality sensors
• Water level sensors
Others
• Smart home
• Automotive
• Smart grid
• Logistics
• Environmental monitoring
Challenges
Challenges
• Security and privacy
• How to guarantee the integrity, confidentiality, accountability, authorization and
privacy?
• Heterogeneity
• Heterogenous sensors, device and cloud service
• How to integrate among multiple cloud service?
• Performance
• Every application has different QoS
• Reliability
• Life critical application should be reliable
• Legal and social aspect
• E.x. European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), UU ITE
Challenge
Platform Service and Research
Project
Platform Service and Research Project
Other : Amazon AWS IoT
Google Cloud Platform for IoT
Open Challenges
• Standardization
• Power and energy efficiency
• Big data
• Security and privacy
• Intelligence
• Integration methodology
• Pricing and billing
• Network communication
• Storage
• Scalability and flexibility