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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
11
Part 3:Building Scalable, Robust, and Secure Solutions

Summary

This was a chapter dedicated to architecture. Although we tried to condense many thoughts into a concise chapter, we explored various functional requirements and NFRs for architecture design. We also explored famous architectural patterns focusing on the manufacturing industry based on its fundamental principles. The five S principles of security, standardization, serviceability, scalability, and simplicity should be considered for any architecture; although there are other important NFRs, they tend to be a subset of these five.

We then delved into two widely used architecture frameworks, the IIRA and RAMI 4.0. Both provide detailed insight into how systems thinking for architecture must be considered with the utmost priority.

After this, we moved on to incorporating AI into manufacturing optimization. This changes how software and hardware are being perceived at the edge and the cloud due to how data is acquired and processed and inferences are done. In summary, the...