IRONEDGE: Stream Processing Architecture for Edge Applications

This paper presents IRONEDGE, an architectural framework that can be used in different edge Stream Processing solutions for “Smart Infrastructure” scenarios, on a case-by-case basis. The identifies the common components any such solution should implement and generic processing pipeline. In particular, is considered context of study case regarding Internet Things (IoT) devices to attached rolling stock railway. A lack computation storage resources available infrequent network connectivity are not often seen existing literature, but were this paper. Two distinct implementations IRONEDGE tested. One, identified as Apache Kafka with Connect (K0-WC), uses pass messages from MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) Kafka. second scenario, No (K1-NC), allows Storm consume directly. When data rate increased, K0-WC showed low throughput resulting high losses, whereas K1-NC displayed increase throughput, did match input Data Reports. results defining new scenarios reference implementation case. future work, authors propose extend evaluation variation K1-NC.