An Approach for Smart Management of Big Data in the Fog Computing Context

In this paper, a new approach for tackling Big Data in Internet of Things (IoT) systems is presented. We approach the problem from the data perspective rather than only focusing on the computing platform. We design and develop a concept that we call "Smart Data". Taking advantage of a hierarchical fog computing system, we reshape the raw and passive form of the data generated by IoT sensors to intelligent and self-managed data cells that are able to evolve and become more meaningful information with reduced size. We believe that smart data will revolutionize the current perspective of data and will open many potential research directions to tackle emerging big data issues.