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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

Real-World Environmental Monitoring

We are excited about this chapter because we will finally put words into action. The previous three chapters included much discussion and theory about how to approach things when designing your architecture and some of the considerations in getting your initiative started. In this chapter, we will focus on hands-on environmental monitoring, which has slightly different goals than what we might initially consider for industrial monitoring in a manufacturing environment.

For some industries, environmental monitoring may be your primary goal. Agriculture and ranching, for example, are widely diverse industries that depend significantly on environmental factors. Oil and gas, mining, and maritime sectors also have use cases in this area. Even traditional manufacturing needs environmental monitoring that can support the manufacturing effort. This could include cold chain tracking or monitoring areas that can get overheated. Water and air quality factors...