A scalable IoT-fog framework for urban sound sensing

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated devices that can be used to allow large-scale collection and analysis of data. However, as it grew, IoT networks were not capable of managing the data from these services. As a result, cloud computing was introduced to address the need for datacentres for IoT networks. As the technology evolved, the demand for a proper means of supporting and managing crowdsensing and real-time data increased, and cloud servers could no longer keep up with the large volumes of incoming data. This demand brought rise to fog computing. It became an extension to the cloud and allowed resources to be allocated around the network effectively. Its integration to IoT reduced the strain towards the cloud servers. However, issues in high power consumption at the end device and data management constraints surfaced. This paper proposes two approaches to alleviate these issues to keep fog computing remain as a reliable option for IoT-related applications. We created an IoT-based sensing framework that used an urban sound classification model. Through active low and high power states and resource reallocation, we created a network configuration. We tested this configuration against IoT frameworks that use the default fog and cloud setups. The results improved the framework's end device power consumption and server latency. Overall, with the proposed framework, fog computing was proven to be capable of supporting a scalable IoT framework for urban sound sensing.

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