A real-time architecture for collaborative IoT applications in urban water management

As democracy is seen as the best form of government to date, we consider that a similar approach should be taken in the case of the society of machines that begins to take shape in the context of Industry 4.0. For this matter, we propose a real-time architecture that allows for collaborative interaction between machines in IoT applications. The proposed solution aims to find the middle ground between the performance of centralized systems and the fully decentralized nature of Blockchain systems, while ensuring high reliability and autonomous operation. While the data storage and communication channel is handled by the central authority, the interaction and decision making is governed exclusively by end nodes. The system is designed based on a modern, push-based architecture and allows for exchanging messages as well as keeping track of the real-time status of end nodes. In the context of urban water management, the applications range from decentralized sensor networks to mobile robots.

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