OpenStack-Powered Edge Service Forwarding and Tunneling Solution for IoT Infrastructure in Smart Cities

Explore a 33-minute conference talk detailing Stack4Things, an OpenStack-based framework developed by the University of Messina research team for IoT/Edge infrastructure management. Learn about IoTronic, the core unofficial OpenStack project, along with its Horizon and Neutron extensions that enable service forwarding and tunneling at the Edge. Discover how this framework implements the I/Ocloud paradigm to manage IoT node fleets and handle sensor data collection and actuator triggering at the edge, working towards a Software-Defined City concept. Understand current deployments across Italian cities and factories, and potential future implementations through the EU-wide Slices-RI consortium for experimental research infrastructure. Presented by Giovanni Merlino and Antonio Puliafito, this talk demonstrates how Stack4Things meets developer-friendly framework requirements for IoT, including Mozilla Web Things specifications.