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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 was a lot to cover in one chapter, and we are just getting started. If you are new to IoT and architecture, we tried to keep it meaningful and understandable. If you are an old hat at this stuff, then hopefully, this was a decent refresher or allowed you to consider some alternatives to your current thinking.

At the end of the day, however, we have a good starting point, and we can build upon this as we walk through various examples. This architecture will evolve as we put some of the pieces together, either swapping in new services or connecting services in different ways to accomplish our goals. Our advice is to have fun with it for now as you connect the dots and consider alternatives based on your environment and your needs.

In the next chapter, we will start to look at collecting data from basic IoT devices in various ways. Our initial focus will be on environmental monitoring, which means deploying sensors directly into your environment to measure more than...