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Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things

By : Giacomo Veneri, Antonio Capasso
Book Image

Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things

By: Giacomo Veneri, Antonio Capasso

Overview of this book

We live in an era where advanced automation is used to achieve accurate results. To set up an automation environment, you need to first configure a network that can be accessed anywhere and by any device. This book is a practical guide that helps you discover the technologies and use cases for Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT). Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things takes you through the implementation of industrial processes and specialized control devices and protocols. You’ll study the process of identifying and connecting to different industrial data sources gathered from different sensors. Furthermore, you’ll be able to connect these sensors to cloud network, such as AWS IoT, Azure IoT, Google IoT, and OEM IoT platforms, and extract data from the cloud to your devices. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll gain hands-on experience in using open source Node-Red, Kafka, Cassandra, and Python. You will also learn how to develop streaming and batch-based Machine Learning algorithms. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the features of Industry 4.0 and be able to build stronger, faster, and more reliable IoT infrastructure in your Industry.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Implementing the Industrial IoT Data Flow

In the previous chapters, we looked at how a typical industrial scenario works and at the existing technologies that have been in place since 1990. In this chapter, we are going to understand how to connect this old world to the new IoT world. We will look closely at how to connect and gather industrial data from different devices and data sources. In particular, we will explain the OLE for Process Control (OPC) protocol in detail. We'll start by looking at its original implementation in 1996, based on the Microsoft architecture of Component Object Model (COM) and the Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), and track its progress right up to the current Unified Architecture (UA), which is based on open and interoperability standards.

We will then go into detail about some concepts that were outlined in the previous chapters. These...