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Designing Production-Grade and Large-Scale IoT Solutions

By : Mohamed Abdelaziz
Book Image

Designing Production-Grade and Large-Scale IoT Solutions

By: Mohamed Abdelaziz

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 connectivity selection criteria

There are several IoT connectivity options we could use in our IoT solution, and selecting which connectivity option to use is driven by the following criteria.

Amount of data

How much data needs to be transferred from the IoT endpoint device or IoT edge device or to the IoT cloud? Is it in bytes, KB, and so on?

Frequency of sending data

How frequently do you need to send data from the IoT endpoint device or IoT edge device to the IoT cloud? Is it every second, minute, day, and so on?

Communication range (distance)

What is the distance between the source of data (IoT endpoint device and/or IoT edge device) and the destination (IoT cloud)? Is it a few meters, miles, and so on?

Communication latency (speed)

What is the speed required in transferring the data? Is it in milliseconds, seconds, minutes, and so on?

Device types

Is the IoT device battery-based (low-power), in which case we should be careful about the selected...