Mobility analytics using data generated from the Internet of Mobile Things
(IoMT) is facing many challenges which range from the ingestion of data streams
coming from a vast number of fog nodes and IoMT devices to avoiding overflowing
the cloud with useless massive data streams that can trigger bottlenecks [1].
Managing data flow is becoming an important part of the IoMT because it will
dictate in which platform analytical tasks should run in the future. Data flows
are usually a sequence of out-of-order tuples with a high data input rate, and
mobility analytics requires a real-time flow of data in both directions, from
the edge to the cloud, and vice-versa. Before pulling the data streams to the
cloud, edge data stream processing is needed for detecting missing, broken, and
duplicated tuples in addition to recognize tuples whose arrival time is out of
order. Analytical tasks such as data filtering, data cleaning and low-level
data contextualization can be executed at the edge of a network. In contrast,
more complex analytical tasks such as graph processing can be deployed in the
cloud, and the results of ad-hoc queries and streaming graph analytics can be
pushed to the edge as needed by a user application. Graphs are efficient
representations used in mobility analytics because they unify knowledge about
connectivity, proximity and interaction among moving things. This poster
describes the preliminary results from our experimental prototype developed for
supporting transit systems, in which edge and cloud computing are combined to
process transit data streams forwarded from fog nodes into a cloud. The
motivation of this research is to understand how to perform meaningfulness
mobility analytics on transit feeds by combining cloud and fog computing
architectures in order to improve fleet management, mass transit and remote
asset monitoringComment: Edge Computing, Cloud Computing, Mobility Analytics, Internet of
Mobile Things, Edge Fog Fabri