Maritime IoT Solutions in Fog and Cloud

We present the complexity of marine-based IoT solutions, i.e. devices with sensors deployed in boats and vessels managed by the Fog and Cloud. The paper describes issues and challenges that arise in this specific environment and presents approaches taken to tackle them. The approach is demonstrated with the implementation of a solution for an open-source fog to cloud platform, mF2C, which results in a working prototype showing promising advantages of exploiting the platform over independently developing a proprietary solution.