Big Data for Internet of Things: A Survey

Author links open overlay panelMouzhiGe^abHindBangui^abcBarboraBuhnova^ab

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Highlights

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Analyzed the state-of-the-art Big Data research in IoT.

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Compared the Big Data technologies across eight IoT domains such as healthcare, transportation, agriculture etc.

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Suggested which Big Data technologies can possibly be used in which IoT domain.

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Interpreted the Big Data research and application opportunities in eight IoT domains.

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Discussed the pros and cons of Big Data technologies in IoT domains.

Abstract

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data technologies have emerged as a critical data analytics tool to bring the knowledge within IoT infrastructures to better meet the purpose of the IoT systems and support critical decision making. Although the topic of Big Data analytics itself is extensively researched, the disparity between IoT domains (such as healthcare, energy, transportation and others) has isolated the evolution of Big Data approaches in each IoT domain. Thus, the mutual understanding across IoT domains can possibly advance the evolution of Big Data research in IoT.

In this work, we therefore conduct a survey on Big Data technologies in different IoT domains to facilitate and stimulate knowledge sharing across the IoT domains. Based on our review, this paper discusses the similarities and differences among Big Data technologies used in different IoT domains, suggests how certain Big Data technology used in one IoT domain can be re-used in another IoT domain, and develops a conceptual framework to outline the critical Big Data technologies across all the reviewed IoT domains.

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Keywords

Big Data

Data analytics

Internet of Things

Healthcare

Energy

Transportation

Building automation

Smart Cities

Dr. Mouzhi Ge is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Masaryk University in Czech Republic. Prior to that, he has worked as an Assistant Professor at the Free University of Bolzano in Italy, as a Senior Researcher at the Bundeswehr University Munich in Germany, as an IT Manager at the Oxbridge Investment Ltd. in the UK, as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technical University Dortmund in Germany, and as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Milano Bicocca in Italy. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Dublin City University in Ireland in 2009. His research is mainly focused on Big Data, Intelligent Systems, IoT, and Data Management. He has been served as a program committee member and reviewer for different conferences (such as WWW, ICIS, ECIS, SIGIR, ACM SAC, ACM UMAP, EDBT, RecSys etc.) and journals (such as TOIS, IEEE TKDE and JECR etc.). His papers have been published in various International Journals such as International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Journal of Computer Information Systems, and International Journal of Semantic Computing.

Hind Bangui is currently a Ph.D. student with the Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Laboratory of the Cadi Ayyad University (UCAM) in Morocco. Her research is mainly focused on Mobile cloud computing. She continues with related topic as an exchange Erasmus Ph.D. student with the Laboratory of Software Architectures and Information Systems (LaSArIS) at the Faculty of Informatics of the Masaryk University in Czech Republic. At the same time, she is involved in Big Data project with the Institute of Computer Science of the Masaryk University in Czech Republic.

Dr. Barbora Bühnová is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Informatics of the Masaryk University in Czech Republic. She received her Ph.D. degree in computer science at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic in 2008, for application of formal methods in software architecture design. She continued with related topics as a postdoc researcher at University of Karlsruhe and Research Center for Information Technology (FZI) in Karlsruhe, Germany, and later at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. She has been involved in organization of numerous top conferences (e.g. ICSE, ICSA, ESEC-FSE, QoSA, CBSE, MOBILESoft) and acts as a reviewer and guest editor in multiple journals (e.g. IEEE TSE, Elsevier SCP, Elsevier JSS, Springer SoSyM, Wiley SME). Her papers have been published in various International Journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Journal of Systems and Software, and Software and Systems Modeling.