Large Scale Stream Analytics Using a Resource-Constrained Edge

Abstract

A key challenge for smart city analytics is fast extraction, accumulation and processing of sensor data collected from a large number of IoT devices. Edge computing has enabled processing of simple analytics, such as aggregation, geographically closer to the IoT devices to improve latency. However, the throughput of processing in the edge depends on the type of resources available, the number of IoT devices connected and the type of stream analytics performed in the edge. We introduce a framework called Seagull for building efficient, large scale IoT-based applications. Our framework distributes the stream analytics processing tasks to the nodes based on their proximity to the sensor data source as well as the amount of processing the nodes can handle. Our evaluation shows the effect of various stream analytics parameters on the maximum sustainable throughput for a resource-constrained edge device.