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Open-Source MQTT-Based End-to-End IoT System for Smart City Scenarios

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  • Cristian D’Ortona

    (Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Daniele Tarchi

    (Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Carla Raffaelli

    (Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

Abstract

Many innovative services are emerging based on the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, aiming at fostering better sustainability of our cities. New solutions integrating Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) with sustainable transport media are encouraged by several public administrations in the so-called Smart City scenario, where heterogeneous users in city roads call for safer mobility. Among several possible applications, recently, there has been a lot of attention on the so-called Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), such as pedestrians or bikers. They can be equipped with wearable sensors that are able to communicate their data through a chain of devices towards the cloud for agile and effective control of their mobility. This work describes a complete end-to-end IoT system implemented through the integration of different complementary technologies, whose main purpose is to monitor the information related to road users generated by wearable sensors. The system has been implemented using an ESP32 micro-controller connected to the sensors and communicating through a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) interface with an Android device, which is assumed to always be carried by any road user. Based on this, we use it as a gateway node, acting as a real-time asynchronous publisher of a Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol chain. The MQTT broker is configured on a Raspberry PI device and collects sensor data to be sent to a web-based control panel that performs data monitoring and processing. All the architecture modules have been implemented through open-source technologies. The analysis of the BLE packet exchange has been carried out by resorting to the Wireshark packet analyzer. In addition, a feasibility analysis has been carried out by showing the capability of the proposed solution to show the values gathered through the sensors on a remote dashboard. The developed system is publicly available to allow the possible integration of other modules for additional Smart City services or extension to further ICT applications.

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  • Cristian D’Ortona & Daniele Tarchi & Carla Raffaelli, 2022. "Open-Source MQTT-Based End-to-End IoT System for Smart City Scenarios," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 14(2), pages 1-22, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jftint:v:14:y:2022:i:2:p:57-:d:749608
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    1. Biswajeeban Mishra & Biswaranjan Mishra & Attila Kertesz, 2021. "Stress-Testing MQTT Brokers: A Comparative Analysis of Performance Measurements," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-20, September.
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