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Industrial IoT for Architects and Engineers

By : Joey Bernal, Bharath Sridhar
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Industrial IoT for Architects and Engineers

By: Joey Bernal, Bharath Sridhar

Overview of this book

When it comes to using the core and managed services available on AWS for making decisions about architectural environments for an enterprise, there are as many challenges as there are advantages. This Industrial IoT book follows the journey of data from the shop floor to the boardroom, identifying goals and aiding in strong architectural decision-making. You’ll begin from the ground up, analyzing environment needs and understanding what is required from the captured data, applying industry standards and conventions throughout the process. This will help you realize why digital integration is crucial and how to approach an Industrial IoT project from a holistic perspective. As you advance, you’ll delve into the operational technology realm and consider integration patterns with common industrial protocols for data gathering and analysis with direct connectivity to data through sensors or systems. The book will equip you with the essentials for designing industrial IoT architectures while also covering intelligence at the edge and creating a greater awareness of the role of machine learning and artificial intelligence in overcoming architectural challenges. By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to apply IoT directly to the industry while adapting the concepts covered to implement AWS IoT technologies.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Part 1:An Introduction to Industrial IoT and Moving Toward Industry 4.0
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Part 2: IoT Integration for Industrial Protocols and Systems
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Part 3:Building Scalable, Robust, and Secure Solutions

Exploring IIoT reference architectures and how to use them

The reference architecture can be considered a framework of processes, methods, and tools that aid application building. It provides an abstract starting point based on which specific systems, solutions, and applications evolve. In this section, we would like to present two of the most prominent reference architecture patterns: the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA) from the IIOT consortium and RAMI 4.0.

The IIRA

The IIRA is an architecture framework that encompasses the information, identifies the fundamental architecture constructs, and specifies concerns, stakeholders, viewpoints, models, rules, and conditions of applicability. Viewpoints can be defined as conventions framing one or more concerns. Concerns are any topic of interest about the system while stakeholders are persons or organizations with an interest in or concern for the viewpoint and the system. Figure 9.2 shows the three-dimensional...