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Fog of Things: Fog Computing in Internet of Things Environments

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The Fog of Things (FoT) proposes a paradigm which uses the Fog Computing concept to deploy Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The FoT exploits the processing, storage, and network capacity of local resources, allowing for the integration of different devices in a seamless IoT architecture, and it defines the components which compose the FoT paradigm describing their characteristics. This chapter presents the FoT paradigm and relates it to IoT architecture describing the main characteristics and concepts from the sensor and actuator communication to gateways, and local and cloud servers. Lastly, this chapter presents SOFT-IoT platform as a concrete implementation of FoT, which uses microservice infrastructure distributed along devices in the IoT system.

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Notes

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    TATU is available on: https://github.com/WiserUFBA/TATUDevice.

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    MQTT Protocol: http://mqtt.org/.

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    A tool for management and monitoring of metrics and indicators, projected to ease the comprehension and decision-making.

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    http://servicemix.apache.org/.

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    https://spring.io/.

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    https://aries.apache.org/modules/blueprint.html.

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    Arduino: https://www.arduino.cc/.

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    Zeroconf: http://www.zeroconf.org/.

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    https://github.com/WiserUFBA/soft-iot-mapping-devices.

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    https://github.com/WiserUFBA/soft-iot-vertx-mqtt-broker.

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    https://github.com/WiserUFBA/soft-iot-local-storage.

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    https://github.com/WiserUFBA/soft-iot-iot-service.

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  1. Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Salvador, Brazil

    Leandro Andrade, Cleber Lira, Brenno de Mello, Andressa Andrade & Cássio Prazeres

  2. Federal Institute of Bahia (IFBA), Salvador, Brazil

    Cleber Lira

  3. State University of Feira de Santana (UEFS), Feira de Santana, Brazil

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Andrade, L., Lira, C., de Mello, B., Andrade, A., Coutinho, A., Prazeres, C. (2020). Fog of Things: Fog Computing in Internet of Things Environments. In: Roesler, V., Barrére, E., Willrich, R. (eds) Special Topics in Multimedia, IoT and Web Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35102-1_2

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