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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

Understanding industrial control systems

Industrial control systems have existed since the third industrial revolution, enabling rapid mass production of goods assisted by computer interfaces. They consist of the hardware and software responsible for real-time operations at the machine level. The PLC, Remote Terminal Unit (RTU), and Embedded Controllers are the first stage of control within the manufacturing environment.

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) generally sits one layer above to supervise and control a network of PLCs and other devices. Distributed Control Systems (DCSs) combine PLC and SCADA in a process-oriented manufacturing setup. For the scope of this book, we will be doing a deep dive into PLCs while giving a limited overview of the other high-level manufacturing systems, except to discuss where we might gather data from some of these systems.

Figure 5.2 – Industrial control systems overview

Figure 5.2 – Industrial control systems overview

PLCs, SCADA systems...