EDaTAD: Energy-Aware Data Transmission Approach with Decision-Making for Fog Computing-Based IoT Applications

In the fog computing-based Internet of Things (IoT) architecture, the sensor devices represent the basic elements needed to sense the surrounding environment. They gather and send a huge amount of data to the fog gateway and then to the cloud due to their use in various real-world IoT applications. This would lead to high data traffic, increased energy consumption, and slow decisions at the fog gateway. Therefore, it is important to reduce the transmitted data to save energy and provide an accurate decision regarding the safety and health of the building’s environment. This paper suggests an energy-aware data transmission approach with decision-making (EDaTAD) for Fog Computing-based IoT applications. It works on two-level nodes in the fog computing-based TI architecture: sensor devices and fog gateways. The EDaTAD implements a Lightweight Redundant Data Removing (LiReDaR) algorithm at the sensor device level to lower the gathered data before sending it to the fog gateway. In the fog gateway, a decision-making model is proposed to provide suitable decisions to the monitoring staff in remote monitoring applications. Finally, it executes a Data Set Redundancy Elimination (DaSeRE) approach to discard the repetitive data sets before sending them to the cloud for archiving and further analysis. EDaTAD outperforms other methods in terms of transmitted data, energy consumption, and data accuracy. Furthermore, it assesses the risk efficiently and provides suitable decisions while decreasing the latency time.