A Framework of Automation on Context-Aware Internet of Things (IoT) Systems

Abstract

An ever-increasing number of different types of objects are connecting to the Internet, and this phenomenon is called the Internet of Things(IoT). Processing the IoT generated data by Cloud Computing causes high latency. Fog Computing is a new motivation for resolving the latency issue, which is a hosting environment between the IoT and the Cloud layers. IoT applications are faced with three significant challenges: big data, device heterogeneity, and Fog resiliency. With the motivation of resolving the challenges, this proposal introduces a Microservice software framework for implementing automatic functions in the IoT-Fog-Cloud ecosystem. The proposed Microservice framework will also enable the development of IoT-based context-aware intelligent decision-making systems. We describe the functionality and contribution of each automatic function in the paper.