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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

Constrained Application Protocol


The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is the product of the IETF (RFC7228). The IETF Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) working group created the first draft of the protocol in June 2014 but had worked for several years on its creation. It is specifically intended as a communication protocol for constrained devices. The core protocol is now based on RFC7252. The protocol is unique as it is first tailored for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication between edge nodes. It also supports mapping to HTTP through the use of proxies. This HTTP mapping is the on-board facility to get data across the internet.  

CoAP is excellent at providing a similar and easy structure of resource addressing familiar to anyone with experience of using the web but with reduced resources and bandwidth demands. A study performed by Colitti et. al demonstrated the efficiency of CoAP over standard HTTP (Colitti, Walter & Steenhaut, Kris & De, Niccolò. (2017). Integrating...