FIWARE Tech Summit - Requirements on Edge Processing and Device&Gateway Management from FIWARE IoT Platform in Africa
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The Waziup project aims to create an open innovation platform for IoT and big data in Sub-Saharan Africa, addressing rural challenges and improving socioeconomic conditions through the development of low-cost, energy-efficient solutions. Key requirements include effective edge processing, device and gateway management, and ongoing support from the FIWARE platform, which currently shows limitations in certain areas. The project emphasizes the importance of managing devices and gateways to ensure efficient IoT operations, with a particular focus on real-time processing and local cloud solutions.
FIWARE Tech Summit - Requirements on Edge Processing and Device&Gateway Management from FIWARE IoT Platform in Africa
- 1. Requirements on Edge Processing and Device&Gateway Management from FIWARE IoT Platform in Africa Dr. Wenbin Li wenbin.li@eglobalmark.com Easy Global Market, France
- 2. Outline ▪ WAZIUP Project ▪ Overview ▪ Challenges and Objectives ▪ Design and Implementation ▪ FIWARE Support and Limitation in WAZIUP ▪ Requirement on Edge Processing ▪ Requirement on Device and Gateway Management ▪ Conclusion
- 3. WAZIUP: Overview ▪ WAZIUP: Open Innovation Platform for IoT-Big Data in Sub-Sahara Africa ▪ Consortium: 7 from Africa and 5 from EU ▪ Objectives: IoT and Big Data application platform ▪ Duration: 2016 - 2018 ▪ Use Cases • Agriculture • Fish Farming • Smart Water • Smart City • Cattle Firms • Health Care • Logistic
- 4. WAZIUP: Vision ▪ Address African rural problem • Empower African rural economy • Improve living and working condition of rural community ▪ Tailor IoT and Big-data technologies in African context • Offer value-added cost • Offer energy efficient services ▪ Build WAZIUP ecosystem and communities • Lower entry level for SMEs, application developers.
- 5. WAZIUP: Challenges and Objectives ▪ Challenges in Africa • Unreliable and Intermittent Internet Connection • Low Consumption and Long Range for Devices • Low Cost IoT and Big Data solution • Easy Development and Deployment of Platforms and Applications ▪ WAZIUP Objectives • Develop/adapt low-cost and energy-efficient hardware (e.g. sensors/actuators) • Design and develop IoT mixed communication and networking infrastructure (e.g., Lora Gateway) • Develop IoT and Big data analytic application platform • Offer open sources (hardware and software) platform for developer and SMEs communities • Validate and piloting the platform in real-life application cases
- 6. WAZIUP: Design ▪ Hardware and Infrastructure • Sensors and Actuators (Lora) • Gateways (Lora) • Local Cloud and Global Server ▪ Platform and Applications • Data Integration and Information Access • Device&Gateway Management • Edge Computing • Privacy and Security • Big Data Analysis and Visualization • User Applications with Various Interfaces
- 7. WAZIUP Design ▪ Hardware and Infrastructure ▪ Platform and Applications • Data Integration and Information Access • Device&Gateway Management • Edge Computing • Privacy and Security • Big Data Analysis and Visualization • User Applications with Various Interfaces
- 8. WAZIUP: Implementation ▪ Data Integration and Information Access: FIWARE enabled □ Orion Context Broker v2 □ Cygnus: data persistence □ STH - Comet: historical data storage and retrieval ▪ Device&Gateway Management: No Support from FIWARE □ ongoing development with simple functions ▪ Edge Computing: Limited Support from FIWARE □ Local Cloud ▪ Privacy and Security: Keycloak enabled □ Access Control □ User Authentication ▪ IoT Analysis and Visualization: ELK Suite + Spark enabled □ Data Analysis and Visualization □ Machine Learning ▪ User Applications with Various Interfaces Kubernetes enabled □ Web app, mobile app, SMS, voice call
- 9. WAZIUP: Implementation ▪ Data Integration and Information Access: □ Orion Context Broker v2 □ Cygnus: data persistence □ STH - Comet: historical data storage and retrieval ▪ Device&Gateway Management: □ ongoing development with simple functions ▪ Edge Computing: □ Local Cloud ▪ Privacy and Security: □ Access Control □ User Authentication ▪ IoT Analysis and Visualization: □ Data Analysis and Visualization □ Machine Learning ▪ User Applications with Various Interfaces □ Web app, mobile app, SMS, voice call
- 10. FIWARE Usage in WAZIUP Common abstract information model • entity-attribute model Efficient discovery, access and filter of information • NGSI interface Enables federation across domains • centralized or distributed architecture Easy Deployment … … No support on device and gateway management Limited support on edge processing No communication control functionality Limited support for interworking with other technologies and platforms … …
- 11. Edge Processing Requirement ▪ Why Edge Processing? • Huge amount of devices and data □ Heavy occupancy of bandwidth □ Increase of latency time □ Decrease of processing efficiency • Specific environments □ Unreliable connection environment □ Real-time environment □ Private environment ▪ Key Functions: □ Communication over protocols □ Data normalization □ Keep data persistence □ Notifications □ Data visualization □ Connection and synchronization with remote/centralized cloud □ Device/Gateway management □ Security ▪ Advantages: □ Real time processing □ Increase service availability (cloud independent) □ Lighten cloud □ Bandwidth optimization □ Cost optimization (Internet connection via or SIM)
- 12. Edge Processing in WAZIUP: Local Cloud ▪ Light-weight IoT PaaS at gateway-level for computing and application • Raspberry PI Gateway (Kura) for data normalization • Local Cloud with data storage and key functions • Ongoing development Local Cloud
- 13. Device and Gateway Management Requirement ▪ The management of devices and gateways is indispensable in IoT world. Why? • IoT not “fire and forget”, need bug fixes and software updates • Scalable automation of routine tasks: communication and control of a list of devices • Alert and remote diagnostic in case of malfunction ▪ Gateway Management • Provisioning • Configuration • Software Management • Command Execution • Monitoring • Diagnostic • Management of connected devices ▪ Device Management • Provisioning • Configuration • Software Management • Command Execution • Monitoring • Diagnostic
- 14. Device and Gateway Management in WAZIUP: Gateway Manager ▪ Goal: to minimize the deployment and configuration effort on the gateway side ▪ Ongoing development with simple functions • Data Interface: REST API and SMS from gateway to Cloud • Deployment and Data Transfer: automatic association of gateway data with services and owners info on cloud side. • Claiming sensors • Sensor data calibration ▪ Ongoing investigation of LWM2M
- 15. Conclusion ▪ Important Requirements in IoT world • Device and Gateway Management • Edge Processing ▪ WAZIUP • IaaS, CaaS and PaaS • Local Cloud for edge processing • Gateway Manager for device and gateway management • Ongoing development while seeking for more support
- 16. Thank you! http://fiware.org Follow @FIWARE on Twitter Dr. Wenbin Li wenbin.li@eglobalmark.com http://www.eglobalmark.com/