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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)
1
Part 1:An Introduction to Industrial IoT and Moving Toward Industry 4.0
6
Part 2: IoT Integration for Industrial Protocols and Systems
11
Part 3:Building Scalable, Robust, and Secure Solutions

Summary

There are a lot of moving pieces, but moving toward a well-defined architecture can help you make sense of it. In this chapter, we outlined how the process involves building something from nothing and laying out the steps for deploying initial sensors, processing data, and providing basic visualization to our end users. We also used this opportunity to build upon a data lake structure within AWS as we added new data sources, processing, and features.

With that, we have also wrapped up Part 1 of this book, providing an overview of Industry 4.0 and the digitization of industry. This exciting new area aims to give the next generation of value through better management and optimization of industrial environments and systems. Our focus in Part 1 was on the basics of industrial IoT, with a lot of emphasis on why digital integration can be significant and how we might approach our goals from a more holistic perspective.

In the next chapter, which is also the beginning of Part...