Edge Computing based Smart Meeting Room Controller

Abstract

In this study, we address the high latency challenge of classical centralized cloud based smart environments. To this end, we propose an edge computing solution for real time meeting room attendance control system in which user tracking and identification is required. In the layout of our architecture, Bluetooth devices associated with users publish their unique MAC addresses to a service agent operating at the edge layer. We established a scalable emulation test bed to understand the behavior of the proposed system and analyzed the performance of the functional components in two different scenarios; first scenario is built with the proposed edge solution and the second one is a classical cloud based approach. We present the early encouraging results obtained for data transmission overhead that reveal the relevance of the edge based design.