Architecture for Enabling Edge Inference via Model Transfer from Cloud Domain in a Kubernetes Environment

Autor: Pekka Pääkkönen, Daniel Pakkala, Jussi Kiljander, Roope Sarala
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Pääkkönen, P, Pakkala, D, Kiljander, J & Sarala, R 2021, ' Architecture for Enabling Edge Inference via Model Transfer from Cloud Domain in a Kubernetes Environment ', Future Internet, vol. 13, no. 1, 5, pp. 1-24 . https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13010005
Future Internet
Volume 13
Issue 1
Future Internet, Vol 13, Iss 5, p 5 (2021)
Popis: The current approaches for energy consumption optimisation in buildings are mainly reactive or focus on scheduling of daily/weekly operation modes in heating. Machine Learning (ML)-based advanced control methods have been demonstrated to improve energy efficiency when compared to these traditional methods. However, placing of ML-based models close to the buildings is not straightforward. Firstly, edge-devices typically have lower capabilities in terms of processing power, memory, and storage, which may limit execution of ML-based inference at the edge. Secondly, associated building information should be kept private. Thirdly, network access may be limited for serving a large number of edge devices. The contribution of this paper is an architecture, which enables training of ML-based models for energy consumption prediction in private cloud domain, and transfer of the models to edge nodes for prediction in Kubernetes environment. Additionally, predictors at the edge nodes can be automatically updated without interrupting operation. Performance results with sensor-based devices (Raspberry Pi 4 and Jetson Nano) indicated that a satisfactory prediction latency (~7&ndash
9 s) can be achieved within the research context. However, model switching led to an increase in prediction latency (~9&ndash
13 s). Partial evaluation of a Reference Architecture for edge computing systems, which was used as a starting point for architecture design, may be considered as an additional contribution of the paper.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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