The Data Interplay for the Fog of Things: A Transition to Edge Computing with IoT

The progress towards proving full deployable Internet of Things solutions for cross-domain data exchange is moving slowly and in todays IoT's challenges the need for integrating data across different software platforms and its use over heterogeneous technology remains open. The use of Cloud computing for data sharing as part of the IoT solution(s) design is provided on the basis that sharing data is enabled by the cloud. The emerging of Fog computing is generating that new scenarios are being re-defined, and in particular cases the need for combining both technologies enabling interoperability is explored/studied. This paper presents an approach of the Data Interplay for the Fog of Things. The need for a more structured way to exchange data seamlessly between edge applications and the cloud is required. The data interplay between Fog and Cloud infrastructures addresses the need for big volume generation and storage of data and the way on how to transfer the data from the edge to the cloud and viceversa.