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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

Summary

This chapter was the penultimate of this book and focused on practical challenges in implementing remote IIoT solutions. Remote monitoring is one of the low-hanging applications of IIoT, where the benefits clearly outweigh the investments made. Remote monitoring also brings about the opportunity to move toward service-oriented architecture design, which we hope was clear throughout the chapter. The number of applications and business use cases that can be constructed and integrated with such a platform is large.

After the case for remote monitoring was presented and cemented, we jumped into the challenges in data acquisition and building a solution architecture around the mitigation path.

Sustainability was one of the key messages from this chapter and will be very prominent in the coming years. Designing solutions around constraints and requirements focusing on value drivers, especially sustainability, is going to be the key as we build solutions for the next generations...