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IoT-Fog based Smart-Building Security System Design and Performance Evaluation

Maha Medhat1, Khaled El-Shafey1 and Ali Rashed1
  • 1 AL-Azhar University, Egypt

Abstract

This paper aims to develop a smart building-security system utilizing fog technology. Fog computing is an innovative solution to reduce latency and network congestion, in which the cloud is extended to the edge of the network. The proposed system can detect an intruder, fire and water leakage. It is implemented using Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Pi-camera and different sensors. The sensors are installed on Arduino and Pi-camera is mounted on Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is used as a fog node to fit the time-sensitive nature of the system. The performance was evaluated through the iFogSim toolkit. Fog reduces 33.26 and 46.8% average latency and sensor delay as compared to the cloud. Also, the value of the network usage decreases by 71% in the case of fog-based even with increased network load. Finally, the iFogSim was evaluated by measuring the simulation time, which gave acceptable results of about 8.5 sec.

Journal of Computer Science
Volume 16 No. 9, 2020, 1325-1333

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2020.1325.1333

Submitted On: 16 August 2020 Published On: 3 October 2020

How to Cite: Medhat, M., El-Shafey, K. & Rashed, A. (2020). IoT-Fog based Smart-Building Security System Design and Performance Evaluation. Journal of Computer Science, 16(9), 1325-1333. https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2020.1325.1333

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Keywords

  • Fog Computing
  • iFogSim Simulator
  • Smart-Building Security
  • IoT
  • Raspberry Pi