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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

Where IT meets OT in industrial systems

The cornerstone of the Industry 4.0 digital transformation has been around cost reduction, worker safety, rapid technology adoption, end-product customization, fast product delivery, just-in-time, high quality, and minimal waste in production. The IT/OT convergence enables the same transformation paradigm. Data that was originally transactional from the factory floor to the executive suite is now becoming real-time and empowering corrective decision-making at the same rate.

Peer-to-peer, or M2M communication, with collaborative functioning and optimization goals, is now becoming a reality. This is because machines, the single valuable component, are getting replaced by data. This, in turn, is now helping to operate machines more efficiently.

Figure 5.15 – Evolving ISA-95 architecture from a triangle to a connected web

Figure 5.15 – Evolving ISA-95 architecture from a triangle to a connected web

The hierarchy of the data pyramid is now dissolving, with the top layers expanding in...