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Henrique Antonio Buzin Vargas is Brazilian, born in Caxias do Sul, and at the age of 12, he moved to Florianópolis. He has always loved the field of technology, and at 15, he took his first programming course at the National Industrial Learning Service (SENAI). Since then, he continued his studies at SENAI, graduating in Systems Analysis and Development. Currently, he is pursuing a master's degree in Computer Science at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), with an emphasis on Distributed Systems, where he is developing a modular architecture that allows communication between fog and multiple clouds for various applications. Additionally, he enjoys practicing martial arts and reading a wide variety of books. He is also an enthusiast of new technologies, always seeking to learn and stay updated on the latest market trends.

Poster Abstract

Fog computing emerged as a solution to reduce latency and improve system efficiency, facing challenges in communication between different fogs and clouds. In this project, the data received in the fog is pre-processed and sent to the HPCC Systems platform for recording. Our objective is to understand the expressiveness of this platform, highlighting its weaknesses and strengths in addressing fog computing, a new paradigm of distributed computing.

In the context of smart cities, we explore the management of data that impacts the daily lives of communities, such as monitoring residential water and electricity tariffs. We simulate the reception and processing of this data in a set of fog nodes, representing city neighborhoods, before sending it compactly to the HPCC platform. We use real databases: the UC Irvine database for energy consumption and the Helix Data database for water consumption. The data is pre-processed by removing unnecessary information and aggregating hourly consumption for transmission to the fog nodes.

The integration architecture between fogs and the HPCC Systems platform consists of multiple fogs, represented by diamonds. Communication between the fogs, indicated by double arrows, is essential for information exchange and maintaining data integrity, allowing real-time adjustments and synchronizations to ensure system consistency and resilience. In this architecture, HPCC Systems receives the processed data from the fogs.

The consumption data of each residence is transmitted hourly to the fog using the CoAP and HTTP protocols. The proposed fog architecture consists of three layers: the protocol layer, responsible for receiving and transmitting various protocols; the processing layer, which handles internal fog processing and communication between fog nodes; and the service layer, which executes business rules within the fog.

HPCC will receive this daily consumption data from residences and process it so that energy and water utility companies can issue monthly consumption bills to their customers. The integration of the HPCC platform with the fog is viable, ensuring user privacy, as utility companies will not have direct access to consumption data. Additionally, this integration reduces server load by decreasing the number of requests.

Presentation

In this Video Recording, Henrique provides a tour and explanation of his poster content.

HPCC Systems Expressiveness for Inter-Fogs Communication:

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