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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

Defining standards

As architects, we have multiple goals:

  • Defining the architecture and product selection is a function of serving the business and trying to serve and enhance the requirements and goals of what the organization and business are trying to achieve
  • Defining an architecture that is functional, robust, scalable, secure, and yet, as cost-effective as possible

Another piece of the puzzle is setting the standards and conventions for the development and implementation teams to follow within the organization. It is equally as important that the organization have these standards that can be applied before any real effort begins.

As an enterprise architect, you may not be doing code reviews with the team; however, you should highly consider setting some guidelines for application architects and team leads to follow, as well as ensuring the project is scoped to allow time for more rigorous software engineering practices to be followed.

The role of standards...