SAT-IoT: An Architectural Model for a High-Performance Fog/Edge/Cloud IoT Platform

Abstract

Current new IoT standards do not detail enough some important and emergent aspects as the Fog/Edge computing support, the IoT computation topology management or the IoT visualization systems. This work defines three new concepts: a) the paradigm of edge/cloud computing transparency that lets the computation nodes change dynamically without administrator intervention; b) the IoT computing topology management that gives an IoT system global view, from the hardware and communication infrastructures to the software deployed on them, and c) the automation and integration of IoT visualization systems for real time data visualization, current IoT topology and current paths of data flows. It is also defined a new architectural model that includes these concepts and covers other IoT demands, like security safeguard services based on Blockchain. This architectural model definition is taken as the basis for developing a new advanced IoT platform referred as SAT-IoT.