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IoT and Edge Computing for Architects - Second Edition

By : Perry Lea
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IoT and Edge Computing for Architects - Second Edition

By: Perry Lea

Overview of this book

Industries are embracing IoT technologies to improve operational expenses, product life, and people's well-being. An architectural guide is needed 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 IoT devices. IoT and Edge Computing for Architects, Second Edition encompasses the entire spectrum of IoT solutions, from IoT sensors to the cloud. It examines modern sensor systems, focusing on their power and functionality. It also looks at communication theory, paying close attention to near-range PAN, including the new Bluetooth® 5.0 specification and mesh networks. Then, the book explores IP-based communication in LAN and WAN, including 802.11ah, 5G LTE cellular, Sigfox, and LoRaWAN. It also explains edge computing, routing and gateways, and their role in fog computing, as well as the messaging protocols of MQTT 5.0 and CoAP. With the data now in internet form, you'll get an understanding of cloud and fog architectures, including the OpenFog standards. The book wraps up the analytics portion with the application of statistical analysis, complex event processing, and deep learning models. The book then concludes by providing a holistic view of IoT security, cryptography, and shell security in addition to software-defined perimeters and blockchains.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Summary

MQTT, CoAP, and HTTP are by far the predominant IoT Internet protocols in the industry with support from nearly every cloud provider. MQTT and MQTT-SN provide a scalable and efficient pub/sub model of data communication while CoAP provides all the relevant features of an HTTP RESTful model without the overhead. An architect must consider the overhead, power, bandwidth, and resources necessary to support a given protocol and have enough forward vision to ensure the solution scales.

Now that a transport method has been defined to marshal data to the Internet, we can examine what to do with that data. The next chapter will concentrate on cloud and fog architecture, from the founding principles to more advanced configurations.