A Big-Data Centric Framework for Smart Systems in the World of Internet of Everything

Current research and development efforts for integrating Everything - heterogeneous objects, devices, and people - in the Internet have advanced network technologies and protocols to develop the Internet of Everything (IoE). The emergence of smart systems such as Smart Cities and Smart Traffic Management Systems have been proposed to gather data from relevant sources via IoE. Recently, cloud computing has been introduced into the IoE paradigm to provide a multitude of services necessary to compose a smart system that utilizes big data. In this paper, we propose a big-data centric framework for smart systems that encompasses four phases: data collection, processing, management, and interpretation. The proposed framework facilitates a modular architecture for smart systems where security and cognition are interactive modules.