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Architecting the Industrial Internet

By : Robert Stackowiak, Shyam Varan Nath, Carla Romano
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Architecting the Industrial Internet

By: Robert Stackowiak, Shyam Varan Nath, Carla Romano

Overview of this book

The Industrial Internet or the IIoT has gained a lot of traction. Many leading companies are driving this revolution by connecting smart edge devices to cloud-based analysis platforms and solving their business challenges in new ways. To ensure a smooth integration of such machines and devices, sound architecture strategies based on accepted principles, best practices, and lessons learned must be applied. This book begins by providing a bird's eye view of what the IIoT is and how the industrial revolution has evolved into embracing this technology. It then describes architectural approaches for success, gathering business requirements, and mapping requirements into functional solutions. In a later chapter, many other potential use cases are introduced including those in manufacturing and specific examples in predictive maintenance, asset tracking and handling, and environmental impact and abatement. The book concludes by exploring evolving technologies that will impact IIoT architecture in the future and discusses possible societal implications of the Industrial Internet and perceptions regarding these projects. By the end of this book, you will be better equipped to embrace the benefits of the burgeoning IIoT.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Assessing governance, risk, and compliance


Governance begins with the establishment of data and security policies in an organization. Many of these policies are likely pre-existing in the organization you are defining a solution for. So, your first step is to understand these policies, as the architecture that you define should provide some consistency in its ability to support the policies already in place.

IIoT projects can also introduce extensions to the architecture that were not previously deployed in the organization (such as those caused by the introduction of new devices and extended networking). These extensions will take a look at the additional standards and policies that will need to be put into place.

Note

What is an SDO?Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) are organizations whose primary activities are to develop, coordinate, interpret, revise, amend, or otherwise produce technical or operating standards, with the goal of addressing the needs of a group of affected adopters...