Smart City: A new phase of sustainable development using fog computing and IoT

Abstract Fog computing is a distributed technology which performs computations at the edge of the network. IoT devices are generating large amount of data that too Heterogeneous in nature. In order to handle applications which, require time sensitive data and quick decision making, a reliable platform is required which can handle all the tasks in a robust manner considering fault tolerance and state migration. To process request originating from end user, an efficacious and pragmatic approach is to get the request served at the edge of the network rather than cloud envisioned with the aim to minimize the latency. Quick decision-making characteristic of fog computing makes it a smart choice for smoother processing and execution of smart city applications. As utilization of internet and IoT devices has boomed the industry, it is important to have reliable applications for day to day activities like payment of bills, traffic light management, health support system etc. The research study conducted explores multi-dimensional abstractions that can extend technological contributions in current epidemic situation.