InterSCity: A Scalable Microservice-based Open Source Platform for Smart Cities

Arthur M. Del Esposte, Fabio Kon, Fabio M. Costa, Nelson Lago

2017

Abstract

Smart City technologies emerge as a potential solution to tackle common problems in large urban centers by using city resources efficiently and providing quality services for citizens. Despite the various advances in middleware technologies to support future smart cities, there are no universally accepted platforms yet. Most of the existing solutions do not provide the required flexibility to be shared across cities. Moreover, the extensive use and development of non-open-source software leads to interoperability issues and limits the collaboration among R&D groups. In this paper, we explore the use of a microservices architecture to address key practical challenges in smart city platforms. We present InterSCity, a microservice-based open source smart city platform that aims at supporting collaborative, novel smart city research, development, and deployment initiatives. We discuss how the microservice approach enables a flexible, extensible, and loosely coupled architecture and present experimental results demonstrating the scalability of the proposed platform.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

M. Del Esposte A., Kon F., M. Costa F. and Lago N. (2017). InterSCity: A Scalable Microservice-based Open Source Platform for Smart Cities . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS, ISBN 978-989-758-241-7, pages 35-46. DOI: 10.5220/0006306200350046

in Bibtex Style

@conference{smartgreens17,
author={Arthur M. Del Esposte and Fabio Kon and Fabio M. Costa and Nelson Lago},
title={InterSCity: A Scalable Microservice-based Open Source Platform for Smart Cities },
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,},
year={2017},
pages={35-46},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006306200350046},
isbn={978-989-758-241-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,
TI - InterSCity: A Scalable Microservice-based Open Source Platform for Smart Cities
SN - 978-989-758-241-7
AU - M. Del Esposte A.
AU - Kon F.
AU - M. Costa F.
AU - Lago N.
PY - 2017
SP - 35
EP - 46
DO - 10.5220/0006306200350046