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Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789537222
Pages 556 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Giacomo Veneri Giacomo Veneri
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Antonio Capasso Antonio Capasso
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Introduction to Industrial IoT 2. Understanding the Industrial Process and Devices 3. Industrial Data Flow and Devices 4. Implementing the Industrial IoT Data Flow 5. Applying Cybersecurity 6. Performing an Exercise Based on Industrial Protocols and Standards 7. Developing Industrial IoT and Architecture 8. Implementing a Custom Industrial IoT Platform 9. Understanding Industrial OEM Platforms 10. Implementing a Cloud Industrial IoT Solution with AWS 11. Implementing a Cloud Industrial IoT Solution with Google Cloud 12. Performing a Practical Industrial IoT Solution with Azure 13. Understanding Diagnostics, Maintenance, and Predictive Analytics 14. Implementing a Digital Twin – Advanced Analytics 15. Deploying Analytics on an IoT Platform 16. Assessment 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

The OPC UA Simulation Server

In this chapter, we will simulate a very simple industrial data flow to implement data acquisition through a simple edge device. To simulate the industrial data flow, we will use an OPC UA Simulation Server to generate the signals. OPC UA is managed by the OPC Foundation (https://opcfoundation.org/) and is the most common industrial operability standard. Several vendors have implemented their own solutions according to the OPC UA standard. We can find other open source drivers for the most common languages, such as Node.js, Python, and Java.

OPC UA Node.js

The OPC UA implementation for Node.js (http://node-opcua.github.io/) is one of the most popular libraries. It supports both the client and the...

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