Cloud Computing in Housing and Utility Services Monitoring Systems

The development of cloud technologies, miniaturization of computing and sensor devices has led to an explosive growth in the field of the Internet of Things. One of the promising research areas within the framework of this concept is smart homes, and, more broadly, smart cities, associated with increasing the values of such parameters of housing and utility services as energy efficiency, resistance to failures, failing and efficiency in general. This article is devoted to the development of an information system for monitoring, remote management and maintenance of engineering systems at the housing infrastructure facilities. The functions of information system include the operational status control of engineering systems on housing infrastructure objects, support, maintenance, repair, prediction and alerts on routine, unplanned and critical situations. Data from engineering objects is transferred over a network to the cloud for processing and subsequent analysis. The IoT infrastructure is used for collecting data from engineering objects. The article presents the results of a comparative analysis of technologies and protocols, and substantiates the proposed architectural solution based on the Raspberry and MQTT.