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Architecting the Industrial Internet

By : Robert Stackowiak, Shyam Varan Nath, Carla Romano
Book Image

Architecting the Industrial Internet

By: Robert Stackowiak, Shyam Varan Nath, Carla Romano

Overview of this book

The Industrial Internet or the IIoT has gained a lot of traction. Many leading companies are driving this revolution by connecting smart edge devices to cloud-based analysis platforms and solving their business challenges in new ways. To ensure a smooth integration of such machines and devices, sound architecture strategies based on accepted principles, best practices, and lessons learned must be applied. This book begins by providing a bird's eye view of what the IIoT is and how the industrial revolution has evolved into embracing this technology. It then describes architectural approaches for success, gathering business requirements, and mapping requirements into functional solutions. In a later chapter, many other potential use cases are introduced including those in manufacturing and specific examples in predictive maintenance, asset tracking and handling, and environmental impact and abatement. The book concludes by exploring evolving technologies that will impact IIoT architecture in the future and discusses possible societal implications of the Industrial Internet and perceptions regarding these projects. By the end of this book, you will be better equipped to embrace the benefits of the burgeoning IIoT.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Building the business case


At this point, we believe we have a business case, but haven't gathered enough details regarding the costs of design, deployment, and management of the solution, to know for sure. As we formulate the other aspects of the architecture in subsequent chapters, we will be able to better assess the scope of the effort and then can begin to gather more accurate cost information. We can plug those costs into the model we will describe here. Benefits are also speculative at this point and will be until the project moves into production. However, if line of business leaders think that the numbers are realistic, that is good enough for now. We should gather a current business baseline so that we will be able to compare it to the benefits we achieve through our project implementation later.

The costs and benefits will continue to accrue as we deploy various stages of the project. We'll provide an illustration of this later, in the section of the chapter showing our supply...