Experimental characterization of an IoV framework leveraging mobile wireless technologies

The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm highlighted the importance of core technologies at the root of any distributed systems, as wireless communications, cloud computing and big data analysis. Today, companies and organizations, pursuing the so-called Industry 4.0 (r)evolution, are moving toward smart factories, smart workforce, and intelligent transportation. The use of IoT technologies for connecting smart vehicles is identified by the IoV acronym, i.e. the Internet of Vehicle. In this work, the authors address the characterization of a distributed measurement platform for vehicle fleet management, focusing on time-related performance. In particular, a commercially available solution has been considered and real-world use cases have been identified, showing obtainable performance: with default configuration, an average overall delay less than 11 s has been estimated.