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Internet of Things for Architects

By : Perry Lea
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Internet of Things for Architects

By: Perry Lea

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the fastest growing technology market. Industries are embracing IoT technologies to improve operational expenses, product life, and people's well-being. An architectural guide is necessary if you want to traverse the spectrum of technologies needed to build a successful IoT system, whether that's a single device or millions of devices. This book encompasses the entire spectrum of IoT solutions, from sensors to the cloud. We start by examining modern sensor systems and focus on their power and functionality. After that, we dive deep into communication theory, paying close attention to near-range PAN, including the new Bluetooth® 5.0 specification and mesh networks. Then, we explore IP-based communication in LAN and WAN, including 802.11ah, 5G LTE cellular, Sigfox, and LoRaWAN. Next, we cover edge routing and gateways and their role in fog computing, as well as the messaging protocols of MQTT and CoAP. With the data now in internet form, you'll get an understanding of cloud and fog architectures, including the OpenFog standards. We wrap up the analytics portion of the book with the application of statistical analysis, complex event processing, and deep learning models. Finally, we conclude by providing a holistic view of the IoT security stack and the anatomical details of IoT exploits while countering them with software defined perimeters and blockchains.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The IoT Story

Constraints of cloud architectures for IoT


A cloud service provider sits outside the IoT edge device and presides over the wide area network. One particular trait of the IoT architecture is that the PAN and WPAN devices may not be IP-compliant. Protocols such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Zigbee are not IP-based while everything on the WAN including the cloud is IP-based. Thus, the role of the edge gateway is to perform that level of translation:

Latency effects in the cloud. Hard real-time response is critical in many IoT applications and forces processing to move closer to the endpoint device.

Latency effect

Another effect is the latency and response time for events. As you get closer to the sensor, you enter the realm of hard real-time requirements. These systems are typically deeply embedded systems or microcontrollers that have latency set by real-world events. For example, a video camera is sensitive to the frame rate (typically 30 or 60 fps) and must perform a number of sequential...