Integrated Architecture for Cloud and IoT with Logical Sensors and Actuators - Logical IoT Cloud

Cloud has become a common infrastructure for IT systems and has been adopted for many mission-critical systems. IoT applications usually provide IoT services with data collected from physical sensors and control commands to physical actuators such as Cyber-Physical Systems. When IoT applications run on Cloud, the integrated systems management for Cloud and IoT is required to manage physical sensors and actuators with ordinary cloud resources such as CPU, memory, storage, and network. It can provide the same level of services as ordinary cloud resources. This paper proposes an innovative cloud architecture called Logical IoT Cloud (LIC) that provides integrated systems management for Cloud and IoT resources. LIC also enables Logical Sensors (LSs) with multiple virtual sensors and Logical Actuators (LAs) with numerous virtual actuators. Those LSs and LAs can perform the same functions as physical sensors and actuators running on cloud-native environments. They can support mission-critical IoT applications on LIC. As a result, IoT applications for mission-critical usages on LIC can collect sensor data via LSs and send physical actuators a set of execution commands via LAs.