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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

Technical requirements

In this chapter, we will gather data, configure sample sensors, and build an initial architecture to process the data flow and present it to the end user. Our goal is to get data flowing cleanly and set up parts of the architecture to build on for later chapters. You will fall into one of two camps:

  1. A technical and hands-on developer or architect will dig into the technology and can follow this chapter to help you get going. This chapter, or this book, is not a basic step-by-step guide. It provides architectural guidance and high-level flow with links, code samples, and many details when necessary. However, if you fit into this camp, you will likely want to adjust things to your liking as you move forward.
  2. Someone who is less technical will appreciate the lack of step-by-step detail as you can follow the approach and flow without getting bogged down (or maybe bored) in the details.

I think this approach provides a good mix of information...