Understanding IoT Devices and Architectures
With a good foundational understanding of IoT and how IoT enables enterprise digital transformations, this chapter will introduce you to end-to-end enterprise IoT solution architectures and devices. For common wireless IoT technologies, a high-level IoT architecture is shown in Figure 2.1. In this network architecture, IoT devices used in the various IoT markets and use cases reviewed in Chapter 1, Transforming to an IoT Business, have a brokered gateway connection to an Internet Protocol (IP) network, which connects to the internet and the enterprise IoT platform and application. Both the IoT platform and application elements could reside in an enterprise data center or more typically, in the domain of a cloud service provider (CSP), such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure, where the IoT data is ingested and formatted for display on an enterprise IoT dashboard.
Figure 2.1 – High-level IoT architecture...