Explora: Interactive Querying of Multidimensional Data in the Context of Smart Cities.

Sensors (Basel)

Department of Information Technology, Ghent University-imec, IDLab, Technologiepark Zwijnaarde 126, 9052 Ghent, Belgium.

Published: May 2020

Citizen engagement is one of the key factors for smart city initiatives to remain sustainable over time. This in turn entails providing citizens and other relevant stakeholders with the latest data and tools that enable them to derive insights that add value to their day-to-day life. The massive volume of data being constantly produced in these smart city environments makes satisfying this requirement particularly challenging. This paper introduces Explora, a generic framework for serving interactive low-latency requests, typical of visual exploratory applications on spatiotemporal data, which leverages the stream processing for deriving-on -synopsis data structures that concisely capture the spatial and temporal trends and dynamics of the sensed variables and serve as compacted data sets to provide fast (approximate) answers to visual queries on smart city data. The experimental evaluation conducted on proof-of-concept implementations of Explora, based on traditional database and distributed data processing setups, accounts for a decrease of up to 2 orders of magnitude in query latency compared to queries running on the base raw data at the expense of less than 10% query accuracy and 30% data footprint. The implementation of the framework on real smart city data along with the obtained experimental results prove the feasibility of the proposed approach.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7248920PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20092737DOI Listing

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