A Platform for Lightweight Deployment of IoT Applications Based on a Function-as-a-Service Model

Abstract

The use of Cloud computing for the development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications has emerged during the last years. But there is a lack of platform that facilitate the deployment an orchestration of this type of applications. This paper presents a platform to facilitate the deployement of Cloud-based applications to devices in Internet of Things (IoT) domains. The platform allows to the programmers to use a Function-as-a-Service programming paradigm that are managed and configured in a Platform-as-a-Service web tool. The tool also allows to establish interoperability between the functions of the applications. The platform has been validated by developing a Cloud application that orchestates two IoT devices, one with a movement sensor and another one with a camera. Finally, a performance study was also performed.  The proposed platform obtained faster and easier deployments of the applications and the resource usages of the IoT devices also were lower in relation to a deployment process based in containers of Docker