Flash-Fusion: Enabling Expressive, Low-Latency Queries on IoT Sensor Streams with LLMs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11885v1
• Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:34:28 GMT
• Title: Flash-Fusion: Enabling Expressive, Low-Latency Queries on IoT Sensor Streams with LLMs
• Authors: Kausar Patherya, Ashutosh Dhekne, Francisco Romero,
• Abstract summary: Flash-Fusion is an end-to-end edge-cloud system that reduces the IoT data collection and analysis burden on users.<n>It achieves a 95% latency reduction and 98% decrease in token usage and cost while maintaining high-quality responses.
• Score: 2.580765958706854
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Smart cities and pervasive IoT deployments have generated interest in IoT data analysis across transportation and urban planning. At the same time, Large Language Models offer a new interface for exploring IoT data - particularly through natural language. Users today face two key challenges when working with IoT data using LLMs: (1) data collection infrastructure is expensive, producing terabytes of low-level sensor readings that are too granular for direct use, and (2) data analysis is slow, requiring iterative effort and technical expertise. Directly feeding all IoT telemetry to LLMs is impractical due to finite context windows, prohibitive token costs at scale, and non-interactive latencies. What is missing is a system that first parses a user's query to identify the analytical task, then selects the relevant data slices, and finally chooses the right representation before invoking an LLM. We present Flash-Fusion, an end-to-end edge-cloud system that reduces the IoT data collection and analysis burden on users. Two principles guide its design: (1) edge-based statistical summarization (achieving 73.5% data reduction) to address data volume, and (2) cloud-based query planning that clusters behavioral data and assembles context-rich prompts to address data interpretation. We deploy Flash-Fusion on a university bus fleet and evaluate it against a baseline that feeds raw data to a state-of-the-art LLM. Flash-Fusion achieves a 95% latency reduction and 98% decrease in token usage and cost while maintaining high-quality responses. It enables personas across disciplines - safety officers, urban planners, fleet managers, and data scientists - to efficiently iterate over IoT data without the burden of manual query authoring or preprocessing.

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