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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

Basic data analytics in IoT


Data analytics intend to find events, usually in a streaming series of data. There are multiple types of events and roles that a real-time streaming analysis machine must provide. The following is a superset of analytic functions based on the work of Srinath Perera and Sriskandarajah Suhothayan, "Solution patterns for real-time streaming analytics." In Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 247-255. Following is an enumerated listing of these analytic functions:

  • Preprocessing: Filter out events of little interest, denaturing, feature extraction, segmentation, transform data to a more suitable form (although data lakes prefer no immediate transformation), adding attributes to data such as a tag (data lakes do need tags).
  • Alerting: Inspect data; if it exceeds some boundary condition, then raise an alert. The simplest example is if the temperature rises above a set limit on a sensor...