IoT services provided by enterprise cloud platforms

Modern cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and Azure provide a fully managed IoT system architecture that can help you do the following:

• Data collection and analysis
• Remote access and deployments
• IoT data security
• Third-party application integrations

The main advantage of using such a platform is that the hardware is completely managed by the cloud service provider, along with data security and access control management. This creates a very powerful and useful platform for a user managing numerous IoT devices on a single platform.

The whole system architecture is broken into four parts:

• Hardware Layer: All the IoT sensors and devices fall under this layer. Their primary task is data collection and sharing.
• Network Layer: The data that’s collected by the sensors must reach the IoT cloud platform in some way and that is through this layer. This can be a direct transfer – that is...