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Monitoring and Managing IoT Applications in Smart Cities Using Kubernetes

Authors:
Shapna Muralidharan
Gyuwon Song
Heedong Ko

Keywords: Smart city; Internet of Things (IoT); Cloud computing; Docker; Kubernetes; Interplanetary File System (IPFS)

Abstract:
With the rapid urbanization, cities are transforming to smart cities with core objectives to maintain a safe, healthy and livable environment for the people. The current landscape of smart cities are continuously evolving with unique challenges and gaining ground with new technology-based solutions on the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing. The efficient integration of IoT and cloud computing can tackle the unprecedented growth of smart cities by supporting various smart services like healthcare, transportation systems, environment monitoring, smart grids, etc. Recent advances in cloud computing like containerization of applications are promising solutions to host, supervise and reform the diverse IoT applications in smart cities. In this paper, we have explored the possibilities to implement a secure, distributed and reliable cloud-based monitoring system for IoT applications for effective management of a smart city environment. We propose to build a container-based system with low latency, a reliable and secure communication among large scale deployment of IoT devices with a strong focus on horizontal interoperability among various IoT applications. Our experiment with Docker-based containerization techniques along with a Kubernetes container orchestration platform emphasizes an efficient way to manage and monitor the status and events in IoT applications in the scale of smart cities.

Pages: 1 to 6

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2019

Publication date: May 5, 2019

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4294

ISBN: 978-1-61208-703-0

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from May 5, 2019 to May 9, 2019