Title
Predictive intelligence to the edge through approximate collaborative context reasoning.
Abstract
We focus on Internet of Things (IoT) environments where a network of sensing and computing devices are responsible to locally process contextual data, reason and collaboratively infer the appearance of a specific phenomenon (event). Pushing processing and knowledge inference to the edge of the IoT network allows the complexity of the event reasoning process to be distributed into many manageable pieces and to be physically located at the source of the contextual information. This enables a huge amount of rich data streams to be processed in real time that would be prohibitively complex and costly to deliver on a traditional centralized Cloud system. We propose a lightweight, energy-efficient, distributed, adaptive, multiple-context perspective event reasoning model under uncertainty on each IoT device (sensor/actuator). Each device senses and processes context data and infers events based on different local context perspectives: (i) expert knowledge on event representation, (ii) outliers inference, and (iii) deviation from locally predicted context. Such novel approximate reasoning paradigm is achieved through a contextualized, collaborative belief-driven clustering process, where clusters of devices are formed according to their belief on the presence of events. Our distributed and federated intelligence model efficiently identifies any localized abnormality on the contextual data in light of event reasoning through aggregating local degrees of belief, updates, and adjusts its knowledge to contextual data outliers and novelty detection. We provide comprehensive experimental and comparison assessment of our model over real contextual data with other localized and centralized event detection models and show the benefits stemmed from its adoption by achieving up to three orders of magnitude less energy consumption and high quality of inference.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-017-1032-y
Appl. Intell.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Collaborative event inference,Federated reasoning,Edge predictive intelligence,Optimal stopping theory,Adaptive vector quantization,Type-2 fuzzy logic inference
Data mining,Novelty detection,Data stream mining,Optimal stopping,Computer science,Inference,Contextual design,Outlier,Artificial intelligence,Cluster analysis,Energy consumption,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
48
4
0924-669X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.39
17
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos1103491.30
Kostas Kolomvatsos229930.48