Edge Computing with Big Data Cloud Architecture: A Case Study in Smart Building

The growth of buildings embedded with technologies that can monitor the internal building environment with respect to energy consumption such as heating, ventilation, air conditioning, wind, motion as well occupancy have an immense potential. From energy management, occupancy administration, security maintenance as well as improving the health and quality of life for humans in indoor or outdoor spaces. These potentials can be realized by a clear understanding of the interplay between vast environmental conditions, humans and their health as well as the many smart products they interact with in their lives. This is a complex process that requires thorough testing and evaluation within smart buildings simulation environments where multiple buildings data can be generated and then effectively analyzed. This can be facilitated by a robust data management process that utilizes big data computing technologies to harness large volumes, variety and velocity of data that can be captured within smart buildings while maintain the security and privacy of data sources. In this paper we describe a smart building architecture that has been designed and developed for management of data from a smart building. In particular the architecture enables acquisition, processing and distribution of simulated environmental building data to multiple consumers and workflows for further processing and analysis locally and in a high performance cloud computing platform. The research premise is that such an architecture enables effective management of multiple data sources within climatic based simulated testing in smart buildings to further research.