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IoT technology has the potential to align innovation with efficient data management, analysis, and exploitation; this will be accomplished through a robust, future-proof, scalable, and secure IoT architecture.
FREMONT, CA: While IoT architecture may offer a variety of solutions for a variety of industries, its core element is the creation of a functioning, scalable, flexible, maintainable, and cost-effective IoT ecosystem.
Although the Internet of Things refers to connected devices and protocols, device data remains isolated, siloed, and fragmented in practice. On their own, these fragmented insights do not give nearly enough information to warrant significant resource commitment in an IoT strategy. To maximize the value of IoT for businesses, the interactions between devices must be open, and more device and system synergies must be enabled.
This is where Enterprise IoT Architecture is critical. It enables organizations to utilize intelligent devices and systems by grouping them to collect specific data or create new business models and uses.
Businesses can automate business operations by leveraging various technologies, from embedded devices with actuators and sensors to internet-based communication and cloud platforms. Additionally, such enterprise IoT apps can send control commands to devices based on predefined business criteria. As Big Data analytics advances, the insights gained from IoT data sets will become more valuable for organizations to make decisions. IoT architecture acts as a centralized monitoring node for all tasks, connecting IoT devices to mining sensor data sets to managing software platforms.
The following are some examples of the various stages of IoT architecture implementation in businesses:
Internet gateways: This component is based on the standard IoT Gateway, which serves as a conduit between the world of field devices and the company data centre, which is typically cloud-based.
Edge IoT: The term edge refers to Edge Computing, which processes data at the network's peripheral, as close as feasible to the data source. The critical feature that makes edge processing essential is that it brings data processing and action-taking as near to real-time as possible.
Datacentre and cloud: Virtualization enables optimal utilization of hardware resources and IoT devices in IoT architecture. Additionally, HTTP and MQTT servers are discussed as application servers for the various cloud service models. HTTP servers can provide devices and end-users, whereas MQTT servers provide many device connections and real-time communication between devices. Other critical components, such as supporting databases, are discussed for functionality, availability, and performance.