Analytics Everywhere: Generating Insights From the Internet of Things

Abstract

The Internet of Things is expected to generate an unprecedented number of unbounded data streams that will produce a paradigm shift when it comes to data analytics. We are moving away from performing analytics in a public or private cloud to performing analytics locally at the fog and edge resources. In this paper, we propose a network of tasks utilizing edge, fog, and cloud computing that are designed to support an Analytics Everywhere framework. The aim is to integrate a variety of computational resources and analytical capabilities according to a data life-cycle. We demonstrate the proposed framework using an application in smart transit.

Keywords

• Descriptive analytics
• diagnostic analytics
• predictive analytics
• edge computing
• fog computing
• cloud computing