Fog Computing Andalucia

Brief system description

Fog Computing Andalucia is a development project to improve actual state of the art in IoT (Internet of Things) with a fog computing architecture. It will provide two new layers of cheap objects, resource constraint, cooperative and distributed.

Fog architecture based on 5 layers or levels:

• Layer 0 (L0): Basic electronics. Very simple components.
• Layer 1 (L1): SOC and MCUs. Arduino and company. Some kind of communications. Energy and resource constraint.
• Layer 2 (L2): SBC. Raspberry Pi and alternatives. Good communications. Better resources, not great anyway.
• Layer 3 (L3): Real computers, MiniPC, local servers
• Layer 4 (L4): Cloud

Each layer has a data model and a communication paradigm.

Objectives:

• Open Source
• Security by design
• Distributed and high availability by design
• Best effort on autodiscovery and zero configuration
• Interoperatibility
• Cloud agnostics

Main technologies and systems (read about them):

• FreeRTOS or Mongoose for L1
• Linux for L2 and L3
• COAP and MQTT for things communications and interlayer messaging
• Node-red on L2, deployed from L3 o even L4
• Blockchain

There is a lot of work to be done

Visit our proves of concept, just rapid settings to test our ideas, not fully developed.