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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

Architectural components for IoT

To understand where we are going, we sometimes have to know where we have been. The history of IT and industrial automation can help with understanding how things work today, and we can build on them as technology evolves. One of those earlier reference models is the Purdue Reference Architecture developed in the mid-1990s. One of the key characteristics of the Purdue model is the definition of layers or levels of separation for industrial systems.

ISA-95 is the standard for Enterprise-Control System Automation, which was built on top of the Purdue model and continues to evolve today. The focus of ISA-95 is to help define standards for interfacing production control systems and enterprise IT systems, focusing on layers 3 and 4 of the Purdue reference model. This is generally where operational protocols such as fieldbus protocols meet the IT or Ethernet networks.

In large part, we are moving into the realm of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and defining...