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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

Summary

This chapter started with a deep dive into PLCs, the brains behind industrial production and operations. While PLCs have been a very closed confidential space with many OEMs using proprietary techniques and implementation architecture, we endeavored to present a standard hardware construct and software architecture. Moving into the realm of PLC programming, we chose ladder diagrams owing to their simplicity, popularity, and industry adoption rates. Starting from the electrical analogy and the basic constructs, we dived deeper through a production line control application.

The smart mocktail bar was an example application providing users with a glimpse of production automation. The application was packed with multiple fascinating Industry 4.0 use cases, aligning it with the central theme of this book. Next, we introduced the data tagging and mapping concept leading toward northbound data integration.

The next chapter is an interesting one, focusing on asset performance...