Design of Smart Home System Based on Collaborative Edge Computing and Cloud Computing

Qiangfei Ma, Hua Huang, Wentao Zhang, Meikang Qiu

Abstract: With the rapid development of the Internet, more and more smart devices are beginning to enter people’s daily lives. The intelligentization of home appliances has gradually become a trend in home networking. How to construct and manage smart homes reasonably system has become the focus of research. Considering the needs and characteristics of smart homes, this paper combines edge computing and cloud computing in intelligent home scenarios to design a smart home system. To improve the system’s reliability and real-time performance, we propose a cloud and edge collaborative processing algorithm strategy and use Kubernetes container management platform technology to deploy the system uniformly. Experimental results showed that the system has higher operating efficiency than the system using cloud computing as the center and single edge computing as the center, which can further ensure the smart homes real-time requirements.