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IoT and Edge Computing for Architects - Second Edition

By : Perry Lea
Book Image

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

Operating systems

The operating system choices for an edge system are numerous and deserve significant attention. From an architect's perspective, the choice must be given a fair degree of diligence as it will be the foundation for possibly generations of software solutions deployed in that environment. An operating system exists as a software abstraction and protection layer between hardware and applications. However, an OS also provides an application binary interface (ABI) for software to exist upon. It may provide real-time response and guaranteed servicing, it forms software process and thread-level protections, and it provides interfaces to share memory and IO between software applications and manages system memory and resources.

Operating system choice points

In many situations, a hardware OEM will provide or recommend an operating system and board support package (BSP) for hardware they have designed. Other times, the OS choice will not be as clean-cut...