Smart City Simulation Platform
At a glance
- Project leader : Dr. Josef Spillner
- Deputy of project leader : Christof Marti
- Project team : Dr. Seán Murphy, Dr. Sebastiano Panichella
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : Innosuisse (Innovationsscheck / Projekt Nr. 40606.1 INNO-ICT)
- Project partner : Ternary GmbH
- Contact person : Josef Spillner
Description
An IoT system consists of hundreds of thousands of sensors,
connectivity media, cloud analytics, and users. Building such a
large and complex IoT system such as smart-city requires careful
planning, selection of the right set of hardware and software
technology and development of scalable computing infrastructure and
applications which can handle millions of sensors feeding terabytes
of data. Building applications for such large scale systems is
really challenging and validating the functionality of such
applications for
scalability, reliability and business logic is even more complex.
Research questions are: How can we achieve ultra-high messaging and
message processing scalability across a fully distributed system
and stack? Which technologies are suitable (zero-copy mechanisms in
the OS, OS bypassing through direct hardware access, cloud
functions, bulk transfers, GPU compute instances) and to which
degree can they be implemented with existing commercial cloud
vendors at which economic price tag?