IoT and Microservice Architecture for Multimobility in a Smart City

Abstract

In this paper, we will illustrate how microservice architectures can be adopted to build Internet of Things services for multimobility in a smart city. Traditional centralized architectures are built as monolithic solutions, which lack the flexibility required to deal with heterogeneous devices efficiently. Microservice architectures implement small features bounded within a running process; independent microservices can be deployed separately in a distributed system. We have proposed a draft of architecture for general-purpose Internet of Things applications. Thanks to the choice of the microservice paradigm, the architecture is capable of interfacing with a wide range of heterogeneous IoT devices while implementing scalability by design. On this basis, a web application has been developed bearing in mind a set of real case scenarios mobility services for citizens multimobility in a smart city.