Internet of Things Cloud: Architecture and Implementation

TL;DR

This paper presents an architecture and implementation of an IoT cloud that combines HTTP and MQTT protocols, demonstrating its performance and potential application scenarios for managing IoT data and services.

Contribution

It introduces a novel IoT cloud architecture integrating HTTP and MQTT servers, with implementation details and performance evaluation.

Findings

Demonstrates high performance of IoT cloud services

Shows effective integration of HTTP and MQTT protocols

Provides insights into IoT cloud application scenarios

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT), which enables common objects to be intelligent and interactive, is considered the next evolution of the Internet. Its pervasiveness and abilities to collect and analyze data which can be converted into information have motivated a plethora of IoT applications. For the successful deployment and management of these applications, cloud computing techniques are indispensable since they provide high computational capabilities as well as large storage capacity. This paper aims at providing insights about the architecture, implementation and performance of the IoT cloud. Several potential application scenarios of IoT cloud are studied, and an architecture is discussed regarding the functionality of each component. Moreover, the implementation details of the IoT cloud are presented along with the services that it offers. The main contributions of this paper lie in the combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) servers to offer IoT services in the architecture of the IoT cloud with various techniques to guarantee high performance. Finally, experimental results are given in order to demonstrate the service capabilities of the IoT cloud under certain conditions.