Exploration of Data from Smart Bands in the Cloud and on the Edge – The Impact on the Data Storage Space

Abstract

Wearable devices used for tracking people’s health state usually transmit their data to a remote monitoring data center that can be located in the Cloud due to large storage capacities. However, the growing number of smart bands, fitness trackers, and other IoT devices used for health state monitoring pose pressure on the data centers and may raise the Big Data challenge and cause network congestion. This paper focuses on the consumption of the storage space while monitoring people’s health state and detecting possibly dangerous situations in the Cloud and on the Edge. We investigate the storage space consumption in three scenarios, including (1) transmission of all data regardless of the health state and any danger, (2) data transmission after the change in person’s activity, and (3) data transmission on the detection of a health-threatening situation. Results of our experiments show that the last two scenarios can bring significant savings in the consumed storage space.