Title: Fog-based smart building IoT model: development and energy cost estimation

Authors: Sunil Gupta

Addresses: Department of Cybernetics, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy studies, Dehradun, India

Abstract: Due to the expansion and accessibility of the internet of things (IoTs), the user gets interacted to use advanced technology. The development and improvement of fog computing and cloud computing services allow developing the IoT application like smart building. In this paper, an IoT-fog-based prototype is proposed and implemented to check the cost estimation. Fog computing reduces the consumption of energy and latency during communication with the smart building. This prototype aims to develop the system based on real-time energy cost estimation, used further for a real-time billing system. In the proposed prototype, the information (current, voltage, power, and energy) is being collected in two real-time scenarios. One is based on fog-IoT-based system, and the other is a conventional system with the help of two circuits with the same equipment attached to find the energy consumed. In this paper, the analysis of energy consumption shows the advantages in terms of optimisation and cost-saving using the proposed prototype.

Keywords: fog computing; internet of thing; IoT; NodeMCU; smart building; Arduino; energy efficient.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2023.132209

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 2023 Vol.19 No.4, pp.354 - 366

Received: 25 Aug 2021
Accepted: 21 Sep 2021
Published online: 13 Jul 2023 *

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