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Designing Production-Grade and Large-Scale IoT Solutions

By : Mohamed Abdelaziz Alwan
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Designing Production-Grade and Large-Scale IoT Solutions

By: Mohamed Abdelaziz Alwan

Overview of this book

With the rising demand for and recent enhancements in IoT, a developer with sound knowledge of IoT is the need of the hour. This book will help you design, build, and operate large-scale E2E IoT solutions to transform your business and products, increase revenue, and reduce operational costs. Starting with an overview of how IoT technologies can help you solve your business problems, this book will be a useful guide to helping you implement end-to-end IoT solution architecture. You'll learn to select IoT devices; real-time operating systems; IoT Edge covering Edge location, software, and hardware; and the best IoT connectivity for your IoT solution. As you progress, you'll work with IoT device management, IoT data analytics, IoT platforms, and put these components to work as part of your IoT solution. You'll also be able to build IoT backend cloud from scratch by leveraging the modern app architecture paradigms and cloud-native technologies such as containers and microservices. Finally, you'll discover best practices for different operational excellence pillars, including high availability, resiliency, reliability, security, cost optimization, and high performance, which should be applied for large-scale production-grade IoT solutions. By the end of this IoT book, you'll be confident in designing, building, and operating IoT solutions.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Anatomy of IoT
5
Section 2: The IoT Backend (aka the IoT Cloud)
10
Section 3: IoT Application Architecture Paradigms and IoT Operational Excellence

IoT and future trends

IoT is already hyped now and it will keep booming and growing in the future with advancements in IoT ecosystem technologies.

As we stated in the first chapter of this book, Introduction to IoT – The Big Picture, IoT technologies are key enablers for digital transformation and they are also enablers for other technologies such as AI, ML, and advanced data analytics, but the question here is whether any technologies will impact or shape the future of IoT technologies? The answer is yes. Let's explain this in more detail next:

Figure 10.4 – Technologies that impact the future of IoT

From our point of view, advances in the following technologies are what will shape the future of IoT:

  • Devices and sensing technologies: Advances in microcontrollers (in terms of size, capacity, power management, peripherals, and so on) and sensors (in terms of sensitivity, resolution, linearity, zero drift and full-scale drift, range...