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Published inNov 2018

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Industrial Internet of Things

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Giacomo Veneri

Antonio Capasso

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Understanding the I-IoT edge

The edge is the junction point between the industrial world and the IoT world in the cloud. The edge can be decomposed into three macro components, as shown in the following diagram:

The macro components of the edge

The Edge Gateway is the core and is responsible for forwarding the data from the site to the IoT Data Hub, whether this is on the cloud or not. The Edge Tools are utilities for configuration, log management, and patching the edge operating system, either from a remote or a local user interface. The Edge Computing is a new, upcoming component that uses data to perform an action at site level or to provide insights to headquarters.

So far, the Edge has been limited to collecting and forwarding data using the Edge Gateway to the I-IoT middleware, whether this is on the cloud or not. Recently, however, industrial companies have been able to...

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Published in: Nov 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789537222

Authors (2)

Giacomo Veneri

Giacomo Veneri graduated in computer science from the University of Siena. He holds a PhD in neuroscience context with various scientific publications. He is Predix Cloud certified and an influencer, as well as SCRUM and Oracle Java certified. He has 18 years' experience as an IT architect and team leader. He has been an expert on IoT in the fields of oil and gas and transportation since 2013. He lives in Tuscany, where he loves cycling.
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Antonio Capasso

Antonio Capasso graduated in computer automation in 1999 and computer science in 2003 from the University of Naples. He has been working for twenty years on large and complex IT projects related to the industrial world in a variety of fields (automotive, pharma, food and beverage, and oil and gas), in a variety of roles (programmer, analyst, architect, and team leader) with different technologies and software. Since 2011, he has been involved in building and securing industrial IoT infrastructure. He currently lives in Tuscany, where he loves trekking and swimming.
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