Real-time data processing scheme using big data analytics in internet of things based smart transportation environment

Abstract

In recent times, a massive amount of smart devices or objects are connected that enhances the scale of the digital world. These smart objects are referred as “things” or physical devices that have the potential to sense the real-world physical objects, collect the data, and network with others. The objects are connected through the internet, which crafts the terminology of Internet of Things (IoT). IoT has been developed and become the center of consideration due to the novelty of embedded device and a rapid enhancement in its number. This increase is resulting in the creative applications of smart environments. Smart transportation is a central stake for the quality of life of citizens in smart environment. Smart transportation involves the use of devices and sensors in the control system of vehicle; for example navigation system of cars, traffic signal management system, number recognition system and speed monitoring system. In this research article, we propose architecture for smart transportation system using Big Data analytics, in order to achieve real time processing and facilitate a friendly communication in the environment of IoT based smart transportation. The proposed architecture is a 3-phase scheme which is responsible for the organization and management of Big Data, real-time processing of Big Data and service management. The proposed architecture is a generic solution for the smart transportation planning using real time Big Data processing. The proposed scheme is realized using Spark over single node Hadoop setup with various input libraries. A huge amount of data from different authentic and reliable sources is measured to validate the proposed architecture. In addition, the effectiveness of proposed scheme also highlighted with regard to throughput.