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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

Appendix: General Cybersecurity Topics

While we have discussed the topic of secure by design in the context of industrial control systems, we would like to provide additional thoughts around IT and Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity from Chapter 5, OT and Industrial Control Systems, and Chapter 6, Enabling Industrial IoT.

The importance of security in manufacturing facilities cannot be over-emphasized as the world braces against cyber threats and attacks. As we have covered, IT incidents result in application outages. In contrast, OT incidents result in real-world consequences, potentially life-threatening accidents, or production and revenue losses.

The challenge here is that we are delving deeper into OT and connecting to systems within this book. This effort comes with risk and the need to mitigate that risk as much as possible with the intrusion of IT into the OT domain. As an architect, the last thing you want to do is introduce hazards or new security holes when...