A Comparison of Cloud Edge Monitoring Solutions for a University Building

Smart building monitoring is prevalent today, having strong support from Cloud Computing technologies. Nonetheless, the effectiveness in doing the necessary processing in due time also depends on the devices situated on the edge, for acquiring data, and sometimes for making the first decision recommendations. The paper investigates a set of solutions with various implementations for the edge nodes and two ways of deploying the monitoring software - locally, inside the building, or in a public cloud. They were tested for real-world settings in a building from our university, to compare the response times and discuss if inherent cost differences are compensated by the performance achieved.