An IoT-Based Cloud-Fog Computing Platform for Creative Service Process

Abstract

The creative service process is an innovative process that uses newly developed technologies to improve the service models currently used. In this paper, we proposed an IoT-based Cloud-Fog computing platform for the creative service process. The proposed Cloud-Fog computing platform is a distributed computing platform where compute, storage, and network systems of Cloud and Fog are working independently or collaboratively depending on the services performed by the platform. If a service requires resources either from Cloud or Fog, then only the designated Cloud or Fog will be involved. Otherwise, both Cloud and Fog will be collaborated to each other for the service. During the collaboration, the required data may be back and forth in between Cloud and Fog. To demonstrate the usage of the proposed platform for the creative service process, two service examples, smart classroom and city surveillance, are discussed