Scale Model Showcase to Drive Policy Making via IoT Composite Indices and Low-Resource Equipment at the Edge of the Computing Continuum

This paper summarizes a demonstration of innovative IoT assumptions about: (a) usage of composite indices to drive sustainable environmental policy making in maritime port-city domains, (b) implementation of a full-fledged IoT architecture focused on the optimization of the edge computing through efficiently distributing its components the across the edge-to-cloud computing continuum and (c) easy, quick deployment of low-cost equipment to realize the two previous points. The demonstrator uses scale-models and data on the environmental field simulating a maritime port. The demo consists of running in real time various sensors completely leveraging low-resource equipment at the edge of the edge-to-cloud computing continuum. The resulting composite index could be very useful for the authorities to perform proper actions with the purpose of reducing the environmental impact of these nodes and for the city population in terms of transparency, since a composite index provides clearer information than a huge amount of raw data.