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Enterprise Internet of Things Handbook

By : Arvind Ravulavaru
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Enterprise Internet of Things Handbook

By: Arvind Ravulavaru

Overview of this book

There is a lot of work that is being done in the IoT domain and according to Forbes the global IoT market will grow from $157B in 2016 to $457B by 2020. This is an amazing market both in terms technology advancement as well as money. In this book, we will be covering five popular IoT platforms, namely, AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure IoT, Google IoT Core, IBM Watson IoT, and Kaa IoT middleware. You are going to build solutions that will use a Raspberry Pi 3, a DHT11 Temperature and humidity sensor, and a dashboard to visualize the sensor data in real-time. Furthermore, you will also explore various components of each of the platforms that are needed to achieve the desired solution. Besides building solutions, you will look at how Machine Learning and IoT go hand in hand and later design a simple predictive web service based on this concept. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to implement an IoT strategy best-fit for your organization
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

IoT platform or IoT middleware

As we have seen saw in Chapter 1, Introduction to IoT, there are plenty of pieces that go into an IoT stack. Building all of them and managing them in real time is a huge, daunting, time- and money-consuming task.

This is where the ready-made IoT platforms play an important role.

In a nutshell, IoT platforms are support software that connect smart devices and the entities that use the data from these smart devices (such as humans, other systems, and so on).

IoT platforms are also known as the IoT middleware, as these are the middleman between the data collected on the edge and the user-facing application.

A typical IoT platform will have the following layers, as we have seen in Chapter 1, Introduction to IoT:

Why platforms?

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