An Edge Computing-Oriented WoT Architecture for Air Quality Monitoring in Mobile Vehicular Scenarios

Abstract

Nowadays, the need to efficiently process information in Internet of Things (IoT)-oriented heterogeneous scenarios has increased significantly, e.g., in all scenarios where unobtrusive environmental monitoring is beneficial for the involved people (e.g., inside public transport vehicles, indoor workplaces and offices, large public infrastructures, etc.). This objective typically requires the combination of heterogeneous IoT systems, which need to efficiently share information, e.g., through the Web of Things (WoT) paradigm. In this paper, we propose an edge computing-oriented flexible WoT architecture, with distributed intelligence, for air quality monitoring and prediction inside a public transport bus. Our results show that the proposed architecture allows seamless integration of heterogeneous IoT systems according to a WoT perspective, exploiting the device/edge/fog computing continuum and using containerized and secure processing modules.