@proceedings {547, title = {Enabling Sustainable Smart Environments Using Fog Computing}, journal = {The 1st International Conference on Electronics, Control, Optimization and Computer Science (ICECOCS{\textquoteright}18)}, year = {2018}, month = {12/2018}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Kenitra - Morocco}, abstract = {

The upward trend in using both Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way of conceiving information and communication systems. We can talk about IoT Cloud\ to indicate a distributed complex system which is able to provide IoT-as-a-Service (IoTaaS). At the edge of the system, multisensors electronic devices make smart\ the {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}things{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} they control also enabling the interconnection with a remote Cloud infrastructure, platform, or software through the Internet.

In such scenario, achieving energy-aware IoTaaS is a challenge which needs appropriate choices in all the environmental, economic and ethical aspects of sustainability. The use of Fog computing\ can help to discover new business opportunities taking into account the above {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}green{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} goal.

In this paper, we discuss the advantages from using Fog computing to offer energy-aware IoTaaS in sustainable smart environments.

Moreover, we present an experimental use case proving the feasibility of our proposal.

}, keywords = {Energy-aware, Fog computing, IoT, IoTaaS, smart buildings, Smart Environment, sustainability.}, author = {Sarah Zanafi and Maurizio Giacobbe and Marco Scarpa and Antonio Puliafito and Noura Aknin} } @article { 11570_3131536, title = {A Novel IoT-as-a-Service Strategy to Achieve Energy and Cost Saving In Microgrids}, journal = {INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING \& TECHNOLOGY}, volume = {7}, year = {2018}, pages = {120{\textendash}123}, abstract = {Smart Grids play a crucial role for always more efficient, flexible and reliable integration of technologies in the electricity marketplace. At the {\textquotedblleft}edge{\textquotedblright} of Smart Grids, appliances and consumer devices consume electricity by Microgrids. End-users need easily and dynamically accessible electricity marketplace and heterogeneous renewable energy sources (e.g., solar, wind, etc.), in order to satisfy energy needs. This implies two main challenges: 1) managing the variable availability of renewables, mainly due both to variable electricity marketplace conditions and to a not-continuous energy sourcing; 2) managing the energy supply/demand ratio especially in presence of scarcity or surplus conditions in the electrical energy providing service. In this paper the authors propose a novel two-levels Internet of Things-as-a-Service (IoTaaS) strategy to {\textquotedblleft}win{\textquotedblright} the above-mentioned challenges.}, keywords = {cloud computing, energy management, Internet of Things, IoTaaS, smart grids}, doi = {10.14419/ijet.v7i4.16}, url = {https://www.sciencepubco.com/index.php/ijet/article/view/21767}, author = {Giacobbe, Maurizio and Puliafito, Antonio and Scarpa, Marco Lucio and Xibilia, Maria Gabriella} }