The use of Cloud technologies has become frequent in our daily lives. Our study was focused on the comparison of two solutions for the implementation of a monitoring system for a university building. Both of them collect data from sensors and a mobile app, but one is based on a virtual machine deployed on a local server and the other is hosted in a public Cloud. The latter is developed as a Cloud-native application implemented with Linux containers. The two solutions were analyzed for scenarios of building monitoring, suited for identifying risk situations.

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Risk situations, Building monitoring systems