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Internet of Things for Architects

By : Perry Lea
Book Image

Internet of Things for Architects

By: Perry Lea

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the fastest growing technology market. Industries are embracing IoT technologies to improve operational expenses, product life, and people's well-being. An architectural guide is necessary if you want to traverse the spectrum of technologies needed to build a successful IoT system, whether that's a single device or millions of devices. This book encompasses the entire spectrum of IoT solutions, from sensors to the cloud. We start by examining modern sensor systems and focus on their power and functionality. After that, we dive deep into communication theory, paying close attention to near-range PAN, including the new Bluetooth® 5.0 specification and mesh networks. Then, we explore IP-based communication in LAN and WAN, including 802.11ah, 5G LTE cellular, Sigfox, and LoRaWAN. Next, we cover edge routing and gateways and their role in fog computing, as well as the messaging protocols of MQTT and CoAP. With the data now in internet form, you'll get an understanding of cloud and fog architectures, including the OpenFog standards. We wrap up the analytics portion of the book with the application of statistical analysis, complex event processing, and deep learning models. Finally, we conclude by providing a holistic view of the IoT security stack and the anatomical details of IoT exploits while countering them with software defined perimeters and blockchains.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The IoT Story

Chapter 8. Routers and Gateways

IoT receives much industry and economic focus because of the number of devices that will be eventually be deployed and the amount of data these devices will produce. There are two methods regarding how IoT will take form:

  • Edge-level sensors and devices will provide a direct path to the cloud. This implies that these edge-level nodes and sensors will have enough resources, hardware, software, and service-level agreements to transmit data across the WAN directly.
  • Edge-level sensors will form aggregations and clusters around gateways and routers to provide staging areas, protocol conversions, and edge/fog processing abilities, and will manage security and authentication between the sensors and the WAN.

The first model is difficult and costly for power and cost-constrained edge-level sensors/actuators/devices. A more logical form will be the latter case. The role of a router or gateway at the edge of sensors/devices includes the formal networking abilities modern...