MCSN: An Essay On Mobile CoT-Based Sensory Network For Real-Time Data Monitoring.

1.Demonstrate an understanding of the role of IT Services management in enabling a business, recognising the difference between a Technology Service and a Technology Product and the impact of the ways that technology services can be to an organisation

2.Critically evaluate a number of options for the delivery of an IT Service and make an appropriate recommendation

3.Design, with clear justification of the choices made, an IT Service using multiple technology products from different sources to meet a defined business need
 

Services Description

Technology is one of the most revolutionary invention of today’s era. It has changed the way that the humans operate by introducing new inventions. One of such disruptive technology is the IT (Information technology). IT has further evolved to offer may significant tools and techniques that involve IoT (Internet of Things) and Big data (Cardoso et al. 2016). The devised report will propose a new IT service that will be serve on the platform devised of IoT based Big Data. The proposed IT service is “MCSN (Mobile CoT based Sensory Network)” where the CoT stands for cloud based IoT. The deemed report will discuss the proposed technology followed by comparing it with relevant technologies before offering the justification of why the proposed service will succeed. The report will also discuss the proposed service using Zachman Architecture model before justifying and concluding the paper.

The recent years have witnessed a major surge in the development of mobile technologies that can be used by the user from any place and any time without much hassle. The deemed technology will be based on mobile cloud computing. The discussed technology is a mobile CoT based sensory network (MCSN). It will be a sensory network that can be used in multi-dimensional field such as highways, healthcare, industries. home and others for real time data monitoring which the host can access through their smart devices. The deemed technology will enable, the users to minimise the cost while enhancing the effort put forth in maintaining the cloud services. The discussed technology will adopt the architecture of minor clouds, otherwise known as cloudlets (Gai et al. 2016). The cloudlets are small clouds that are scattered over the coverage area and uses cheap means of connections such as the Wi-Fi. Use of such technologies will reduce the time & power consumption while also minimises the communication delay as compared to its counterpart cloud services. Integrating of the cloudlets with the smart devices will be made to ensure the accessibility of the system from any place and any time (Dinh, Kim and Lee 2017). The smart devices will be connected to the cloudlets via the internet.

The collection of the real-time and big data will be done through a number of sensors distributed among the industry taken in consideration. If the proposed It service is applied in a home then, a number of sensors such as heat sensor, motion sensor, frequency sensor and other will be attached to the home appliance which will sent the real-time data to the cloudlet server which will further be communicated to the host’s smart devices, if there is a change in the data received by the server. The cloudlet server will be programmed to measure real-time data within a domain and if the collected data varies from the domain, then a notification will be flashed to the user who can take the necessary measure accordingly (Kumari and Kaushal 2017). On the contrary, if the user wishes to change the state of any home appliance, they will communicate the cloudlet server which will further change the status of the appliance, by flashing a change notification through the sensors. The sensors used in the proposed network can vary according to the needs of the users and the sector they wish to apply the proposed IT service.

Evaluation of Technologies

The proposed technology will be formulated over a five-layered based architecture and some technologies to formulate the network (Mahmoud et al. 2015). The sis-layers are

Coding layer: In the deemed layer all the connected devices are tagged with a unique id to simplify their identification and will be offered a domain (if the data collected from a particular unique id exceeds the domain the user will be notified).

Perception layer: The deemed layer collects all the data from the sensors to the digital signal which then equips network layer for communication with the host server.

Network layer: The deemed layer receives the signals form the perception layer and then transfers it to the middleware layer with assistance of different technologies.

Middleware layer: The deemed layer receives the information from the network layer and processes them according to the coding layer and the database.

Application layer: The deemed layer is for the interaction of the sensory network and the user. The user according to their needs can give away the commands after analysing the received information. 

Figure 2: Zachman Architecture model of MCSN

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The proposed service will be share its comparison with the existing cloud services both traditional and mobile, IoT and others. The most prominent competitor will be the Oracle mobile cloud which provides its PaaS service for the mobile users. Additionally, the AWS, Azure, Bluemix and similar others are also its competitor which provides integrated services of cloud and IoT. However, that the proposed service will earn preference over other services because of the control and cost that the user will enjoy through the deemed service. The users will enjoy total control over the network because it will be developed by them and no third party will be involved which also mitigate the security concerns (Petter, DeLone and McLean 2013). Additionally, the cost of the discussed service will be efficient than its counterparts which will also be a crucial factor for the service to entertain competitive advantage. Hence, it is stated that the proposed service will earn a greater positive response from the users compared to its counterparts.

The validity for the existence of the service will be worthless if the proposed service fails to became a success. Hence, the deemed section will discuss the measures that will be equipped to measure the success of the proposed service. The service will be compared and contrasted with other available service especially Oracle mobile cloud service which is a similar service and can be compared. The comparison will be based upon the connectivity, price, usability, adaptability, compatibility, security and others (Rahimi et al. 2014). The usability is the most crucial because it will define the ease of use that the user enjoys (Sanaei et al. 2014). The network will be more secure in comparison to other service providers. The reason for stating the above mentioned fact lays over the fact that as the domain of the cloudlet are small it offers more ease and security then the others. Additional full control with the user also provide them the opportunity to explore the service to its full potential and attempt all the creative means (Pacheco et al. 2016). Hence, it can be stated that the service will be successful because of its large number of features and the freedom along with security.

Conclusion:

The discussed report discussed about a new IT service that can change the means at which the users look at the cloud services. The discussion over the service, its architecture, comparison with other similar services and others has been done into the report to offer a clear insight into the proposed IT service. The discussed report can be emphasised to state that the proposed service will be great assistance to the mobile users who enjoy taking command from remote locations. Additionally, the cost-effectiveness and the total control over the network along with real-time data monitoring is another significant feat that the user will enjoy. 

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