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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

Routing functions


When considering IoT architecture, the router plays a significant role in the overall management, scaling, and security of a system. Often, it is the case that the role of a router is trivialized to simply act as a gateway from one protocol to another (cellular to Bluetooth converter). For a commercial or industrial deployment, significantly more needs to be considered, especially when devices are in remote and moving systems.

Gateway functions

We have covered several types of wireless communication in this book, all of which require some form of transmitter and receiver as well as a mechanism to bridge traffic to the internet. This is the single most important role of the IoT edge gateway. Whether the medium is a Bluetooth mesh requiring a bridge node or a cellular network eNodeB, the roles are similar. The gateway bridges and marshals data between two dissimilar networks. 

A router can be a gateway. Routers manage and steer traffic between similar networks. In IoT architecture...