Structure proposed to deal with sensor-based data

Resumo

The possibility of greater control over processes, with the increasing use of sensors, leads to the generation of a large amount of data and, consequently, inherent difficulties, also need care. Storage, processing, filtering, become more difficult and the use of cloud computing can be a solution, however, the cloud computing technology also has limitations regarding latency and availability that can be mitigated with the use of an intermediate layer, called fog computing. As the structuring of the fog computing layer is not yet standardized, one of the possibilities is the application of an enterprise service bus (ESB), a structure based on the availability and interconnection of targeted services, for processing, filtering or storage. From an ESB structure such as fog computing, proofs of concept were developed to validate the technology, the first proof of concept being an environment, whose temperature must be controlled, with distributed sensors and their values received, processed and stored by services in the ESB and the second proof of concept, based on soil contaminant data, obtained by sensors and made available in the literature, for which filtering and processing services, on the same bus, were used. The study presents, in its results, the applicability of the fog computing layer, minimizing the limitations of cloud computing.