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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

Data integration and mapping

PLCs are the powerhouses of automation and can independently operate and execute programs based on program logic – so, why do we need to aggregate and visualize data? Data monitoring and handling of data are very important to understand the current state and debug and diagnose in case of failures. The human or operator will continue to play a very important role in the entire process. To enable this human or operator to take important decisions based on human-comprehensible information, data acquisition and visualization become important. The PLC program, once finalized, is locked into the PLC and real-time ladder diagram debugging becomes strenuous.

The first step of data visualization is the HMI module at the production site. The PLC sends real-time data to the HMI, and production status with alarms and error codes is notified to the operator. The HMI also provides the user with the ability to alter predefined variables in accordance with...