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Intelligent Workloads at the Edge

By : Indraneel Mitra, Ryan Burke
Book Image

Intelligent Workloads at the Edge

By: Indraneel Mitra, Ryan Burke

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed how people think about and interact with the world. The ubiquitous deployment of sensors around us makes it possible to study the world at any level of accuracy and enable data-driven decision-making anywhere. Data analytics and machine learning (ML) powered by elastic cloud computing have accelerated our ability to understand and analyze the huge amount of data generated by IoT. Now, edge computing has brought information technologies closer to the data source to lower latency and reduce costs. This book will teach you how to combine the technologies of edge computing, data analytics, and ML to deliver next-generation cyber-physical outcomes. You’ll begin by discovering how to create software applications that run on edge devices with AWS IoT Greengrass. As you advance, you’ll learn how to process and stream IoT data from the edge to the cloud and use it to train ML models using Amazon SageMaker. The book also shows you how to train these models and run them at the edge for optimized performance, cost savings, and data compliance. By the end of this IoT book, you’ll be able to scope your own IoT workloads, bring the power of ML to the edge, and operate those workloads in a production setting.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction and Prerequisites
3
Section 2: Building Blocks
10
Section 3: Scaling It Up
13
Section 4: Bring It All Together

Chapter 3: Building the Edge

In this chapter, you will learn about edge solution concepts such as gateways and how AWS IoT Greengrass is used as a powerful edge appliance to interact with physical interfaces and leaf devices. The goal of this chapter is to start building proficiency with the use of IoT Greengrass for the writing and deploying of software components. This material is foundational to much of the book's hands-on projects and for understanding how we build solutions for the edge.

We will introduce you to the different protocols that IoT Greengrass can support out of the box and discuss commonly used protocols when building edge solutions. Additionally, we will review several security best practices for you to learn how to keep your edge workloads protected from threats and vulnerabilities. The chapter concludes with a hands-on activity to connect your first two device capabilities as components, whether using actual hardware or a pair of simulators.

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