SBDC: Smart Building Data Center for Iot, Edge, and 5G

Internet of Things (IoT) targets smart devices and applications to better assist the supported domains with intelligent technologies to increase the utilization of resources and users. Smart buildings constitute one such domain, where millions of devices generate terabytes of data demanding ultrahigh-speed computation and communication power for monitoring and analytical purposes. Latency in computation and communication is thus paramount. To meet such demand, this paper proposes a new architecture called Smart Building Data-Center (SBDC), an edge cloudlet node, furnishing high computing power and storage generated for vast IoT data in the building. In addition, this datacenter integrates a Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) of the Fifth Generation (5G) for all 5G wireless devices used in the building. Each SBDC is further connected to nearby smart buildings, cloud datacenters, and other networks in a Smart City. This paper describes the design, architecture, and network connectivity of the proposed system.