The Fog-based Home Automation Platform (FOGHA) is a novel Fog-based smart home platform that utilizes real-time containerized service deployment and task-offloading over its computing nodes. Fog is the middle computing layer that is physically near to the Things layer (connected appliances) and is composed of multiple Fog nodes that are orchestrated in a distributed manner. The architecture supports intra-Fog and inter-layer task offloading mechanisms via the real-time deployment of containerized services. The delay-sensitive services are mostly performed among Fog nodes, whereas the resource-demanding tasks are offloaded to the Cloud nodes. FOGHA utilizes software services as Docker containers, which is a novel approach for resource-scarce Fog nodes compared to existing automation platforms. Our experiments proved that resource-demanding tasks such as face recognition could also be collectively performed within the Fog layer, revealing that Fog layer nodes can provide the Cloud layer’s computational power and service variety.

基于Fog的家庭自动化平台（FOGHA）是一种基于Fog的新型智能家庭平台，该平台在其计算节点上利用实时容器化服务部署和任务分载。Fog是中间计算层，它实际上靠近事物层（连接的设备），并且由以分布式方式编排的多个Fog节点组成。该架构通过实时部署容器化服务来支持雾内和层间任务卸载机制。延迟敏感服务主要在Fog节点之间执行，而资源需求任务则转移到Cloud节点上。FOGHA将软件服务用作Docker容器，与现有的自动化平台相比，这是一种针对资源匮乏的Fog节点的新颖方法。