Empowering IoT Applications with Flexible, Energy-Efficient Remote Management of Low-Power Edge Devices

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel, modular approach for fine-grained, energy-efficient remote management of low-power IoT edge devices, enhancing system reliability and flexibility.

Contribution

It introduces a new modular architecture for managing micro-services on IoT edge devices, improving energy efficiency and operational flexibility.

Findings

Enhanced system reliability demonstrated in experiments

Improved energy efficiency shown in proof of concept

Flexible management of micro-services enabled

Abstract

In the context of the Internet of Things (IoT), reliable and energy-efficient provision of IoT applications has become critical. Equipping IoT systems with tools that enable a flexible, well-performing, and automated way of monitoring and managing IoT edge devices is an essential prerequisite. In current IoT systems, low-power edge appliances have been utilized in a way that can not be controlled and re-configured in a timely manner. Hence, conducting a trade-off solution between manageability, performance and design requirements are demanded. This paper introduces a novel approach for fine-grained monitoring and managing individual micro-services within low-power edge devices, which improves system reliability and energy efficiency. The proposed method enables operational flexibility for IoT edge devices by leveraging a modularization technique. Following a review of existing solutions for remote-managed IoT services, a detailed description of the suggested approach is presented. Also, to explore the essential design principles that must be considered in this approach, the suggested architecture is elaborated in detail. Finally, the advantages of the proposed solution to deal with disruptions are demonstrated in the proof of concept-based experiments.