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Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things

By : Giacomo Veneri, Antonio Capasso
Book Image

Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things

By: Giacomo Veneri, Antonio Capasso

Overview of this book

We live in an era where advanced automation is used to achieve accurate results. To set up an automation environment, you need to first configure a network that can be accessed anywhere and by any device. This book is a practical guide that helps you discover the technologies and use cases for Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT). Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things takes you through the implementation of industrial processes and specialized control devices and protocols. You’ll study the process of identifying and connecting to different industrial data sources gathered from different sensors. Furthermore, you’ll be able to connect these sensors to cloud network, such as AWS IoT, Azure IoT, Google IoT, and OEM IoT platforms, and extract data from the cloud to your devices. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll gain hands-on experience in using open source Node-Red, Kafka, Cassandra, and Python. You will also learn how to develop streaming and batch-based Machine Learning algorithms. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the features of Industry 4.0 and be able to build stronger, faster, and more reliable IoT infrastructure in your Industry.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

The OPC UA Simulation Server

In this chapter, we will simulate a very simple industrial data flow to implement data acquisition through a simple edge device. To simulate the industrial data flow, we will use an OPC UA Simulation Server to generate the signals. OPC UA is managed by the OPC Foundation (https://opcfoundation.org/) and is the most common industrial operability standard. Several vendors have implemented their own solutions according to the OPC UA standard. We can find other open source drivers for the most common languages, such as Node.js, Python, and Java.

OPC UA Node.js

The OPC UA implementation for Node.js (http://node-opcua.github.io/) is one of the most popular libraries. It supports both the client and the...