Abstract
The paper analyzes hybrid IoT platform architectures that integrate cloud-based and edge-based solutions. While cloud platforms offer scalability and a centralized global view, edge platforms provide low latency, enhanced privacy, and local autonomy. By combining them, hybrid systems can leverage both local performance aspects (e.g., real-time actuation and device management) and global centralized processing at the cloud level. The edge is enabled to share filtered and aggregated local views with the cloud, while local changes of IoT devices at the edge level do not affect the cloud level. Such architectures are thus adequate for longstanding IoT deployments. We review existing strategies for integrating IoT devices with cloud platforms and introduce a flexible, edge-centric integration approach which simplifies device replacement procedures and offers configurable data synchronization with the cloud. We validate the approach through a case study on a hybrid smart home solution that integrates an open-source edge platform with a commercial cloud-based platform to manage and process home automation data across large-scale deployments.
Keywords: interoperability, intermediary edge gateway, IoT platform federation
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Vuknić, K., Kušek, M. & Podnar Žarko, I., (2025) “Hybrid IoT Platform Architectures for Flexible and Longstanding Deployments”, IoT Workshop Proceedings 1(1), 8-16. doi: https://doi.org/10.34749/3061-1008.2025.2
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