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Industrial IoT for Architects and Engineers

By : Joey Bernal, Bharath Sridhar
Book Image

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

Sending data to the cloud

As with most things on the AWS platform, there are always several ways to design and build a solution; in this case, it depends on our ultimate goals:

  • Process data locally on the edge? In this case, we need to build another custom component that listens to the correct topic for a response. The topic for this example would be modbus\response\conveyer, mapping directly to the name we provided in our ModbusTCP component configuration. Example code for this type of component is readily available in online examples and you can follow the same process we used for the request component.
  • Forward data to the cloud? Suppose the only thing we need to do is forward the data to IoT Core. In that case, we can simplify our work somewhat by using a prebuilt component to deliver data to the cloud directly from local Greengrass IPC messages.

The reality is that it is probably a combination of these two goals we aim to achieve: process data at least somewhat...