The burgeoning paradigms of Fog and Edge computing propose delegating Cloud-related tasks to the network's periphery, thus placing computational resources closer data producers. This shift promises boost performance IoT-based services, providing swift response times while conserving bandwidth. Despite their potential, current Edge/Fog platforms must provide required flexibility for dynamic service orchestration within a data-oriented context. Addressing this gap, Function-as-a-Service (FaaS)...

The exponential growth of connected devices and sensor networks has revolutionized data collection monitoring across industries, from healthcare to smart cities. However, the true value these systems lies not merely in gathering but transforming it into actionable intelligence. integration IoT, cloud computing, edge AI offers a robust pathway achieve this transformation, enabling real-time decision-making predictive insights. This paper explores innovative approaches combine technologies,...

A smart city represents an improvement of today’s cities, both functionally and structurally, that strategically utilizes several factors, capitalizing on Information Communications Technology (ICT) to increase the city’s sustainable growth strengthen functions, while ensuring citizens’ enhanced quality life health. Cities can be viewed as a microcosm interconnected “objects” with which citizens interact daily, extremely interesting example cyber physical system (CPS), where continuous...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming various domains, including smart energy management, by enabling the integration complex digital and physical components in distributed cyber-physical systems (DCPSs). design DCPSs has so far been focused on performance-related, non-functional requirements. However, with growing power consumption computation expenses, sustainability becoming an important aspect to consider. This led concept energy-aware DCPSs, which integrate conventional...

This paper describes a novel architecture that aims to create template for the implementation of an IT platform, supporting deployment and integration different digital twin subsystems compose complex urban intelligence system. In more detail, proposed Smart City has following main purposes: (i) facilitating in cloud environment; (ii) effectively storing, integrating, managing, sharing huge amount heterogeneous data acquired produced by each subsystem, using lake; (iii) exchange sharing;...

The arising of the Cyber–Physical Systems’ vision and concepts drives technological evolution toward a new architectural design for infrastructure an environment referred to as Smart Environment. This perspective alters way systems within City landscapes are conceived, designed, ultimately realized. Modular architecture, resource-sharing techniques, precise deployment approaches (such microservices-oriented or reliant on FaaS paradigm) serve cornerstones cognizant multiple Systems composing...

In the context of evolving Smart Cities, integration drone technology and distributed computing paradigms presents significant potential for enhancing urban infrastructure services. This paper proposes a comprehensive approach to optimizing delivery logistics through cloud-based model that employs Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) planning Model Predictive Control (MPC) trajectory tracking within broader Computing Continuum framework. The proposed system addresses Capacitated Vehicle Routing...

Nowadays, Edge computing allows to push the application intelligence at boundaries of a network in order get high-performance processing closer both data sources and end-users. In this scenario, Horizon 2020 BEACON project - enabling federated Cloud-networking can be used setup Fog environments were applications deployed instantiate applications. paper, we focus on deployment orchestration distributed services such fog environments. We assume that service is composed many microservices....

Cloud computing is becoming a relatively mature paradigm in the ICT landscape. In light of growing appetite for resources and service levels on par with user expectations, multi-cloud scenarios are next frontier usage distributed datacenters private hybrid scenarios. Application deployment particular noteworthy feature to be evaluated as microservices become mainstream adoption. Especially so when considered jointly orchestration services; indeed OpenStack, most widely adopted middleware...

Nowadays Cloud computing permeates almost every domain in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and, increasingly, most of the action is shifting from large, dominant players toward independent, heterogeneous, private/hybrid deployments, line with an ever wider range business models stakeholders. The rapid growth numbers diversity small medium providers bringing new challenges as-a-Services space. Indeed, significant hurdles for smaller service being competitive incumbent market...

A Smart City can be envisioned as an ecosystem of smart environments that federated to interact one another, making infrastructure suitable host innovative services for citizens and improve quality city life. In such a context, interoperability the presence different administrative domains are main challenges. this paper, we propose extend Software-Defined paradigm both I/O networking functions implementing vision. Through motivating use case, show how approach help in fully programmable...

A Smart Factory exploits information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the production process working environment, usually addressing safety concerns. To this concern, factory-grade fire protection systems are governed by several procedures standards whose application often becomes definitely challenging when factory premises dispersed across multiple administrative domains. In such contexts, approach can prove very effective in management coordination of factory-level system....

In this work, we propose a low-cost Smart and Healthy Intelligent Room System (SHIRS), able to monitor Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) by enhancing edge-based computation. SHIRS exploits the ability run Machine Learning (ML) algorithms infer humans presence (headcount) from environmental data analysis. Experimental results show validity of proposed approach, demonstrate potential computing push towards adoption smart integrated Cloud-IoT frameworks for monitoring control.

With the widespread emergence of Internet Things (IoT), our environment and locations are turning progressively into smart environments ranging from individual houses/offices to schools, factories, hospitals. Even more interesting, with rise Fog/Edge paradigms, IoT application scope has been extended provide critical services. By pushing resources such as compute storage network edge, IoT-based services taking benefits their proximity better performances. However, albeit an exciting...

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), combined with interconnected wearable devices and medical-grade sensors, can play an essential role in healthcare evolution. By exploiting the data generated by plethora (vital parameters, location-based info, patients activity more), advanced ICT systems be put place predicting capabilities. This way potentially critical situations, that may evolve serious complications to patients' well-being, promptly recognized successfully addressed, first all,...

Smart Building/Environment management is an interesting topic that, although widely investigated in the literature, has not seen wide adoption real case studies. Current Building solutions provide facilities for: i) automatically managing HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) systems; ii) energy management, iii) building automation. are tightly coupled with underlying IT infrastructure of cannot be rearranged according to events, catastrophic or otherwise, that may modify...

Air pollution is one of today's most biggest problems, mostly due to greenhouse gas emissions that have increased exponentially since the mid-twentieth century. Today's society main culprit caused by industriaV-manufacturing processes and different transportation means. In particular, cities, always affected traffic congestion traversed uncountable vehicles, are crucial points where actuate solutions can mitigate pollutants generated vehicles. The enhanced Internet Things (IoT) advent,...