Performance and Scalability of Open Source IoT Platforms

• Dener Ottolini Silva Federal University of ABC (UFABC)
• Ivan Dimitry Zyrianoff Federal University of ABC (UFABC)
• Alexandre Heideker Federal University of ABC (UFABC)
• João Henrique Kleinschmidt Federal University of ABC (UFABC)
• Carlos Alberto Kamienski Federal University of ABC (UFABC)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbrc.2020.12274

Abstract

IoT platforms manage distributed sensors, actuators and data, connecting heterogeneous devices with applications that add value to the collected data. Although there are several IoT platforms, many are complex, unversatile and expensive, still lacking information about their performance and scalability, impairing a direct comparison between them. This article evaluates and compares three open source IoT platforms - FIWARE, Konker and ThingsBoard - through quantitative metrics to understand their operation, scalability, reliability and hardware resources needed for its operation in city and health scenarios. The results show that greater computational power directly affects the scalability of each platform, but does not directly interfere with the processing time of each message. The results also show that, although the platforms evaluated have similar structures and proposals, their performances are very different, showing that each platform is suitable for a different solution.

Keywords: IoT, Scalavility, Fiware, Konker, Thingsboard

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