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Designing Production-Grade and Large-Scale IoT Solutions

By : Mohamed Abdelaziz
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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 scenarios

There are many connectivity scenarios, but we will focus on two common scenarios that exist in any IoT solution.

Have a look at the following diagram:

Figure 2.12 – IoT connectivity scenarios

As per Figure 2.12, we could have the following scenarios.

Scenario #1

In this scenario, you have the following:

  • IoT endpoint devices (device 1, device 2device n): They are battery-based (low-power) IoT devices, they are fixed in their location, they have a radio communication module for wireless communication, they are low-cost devices, they require a low data-bits rate on the communication link, and their radio module is manufactured to operate on an unlicensed radio spectrum.
  • IoT gateway device: You have one or more of these; they are plugged in or have a source of power through an electricity source or some other power technologies such as energy-harvesting technologies. The IoT gateway has internet connectivity...