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Published inMar 2023
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Imran Bashir
Imran Bashir
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Imran Bashir

Imran Bashir has an M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture, infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the British Computer Society (BCS). Imran has extensive experience in both the public and financial sectors, having worked on large-scale IT projects in the public sector before moving to the financial services industry. Since then, he has worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europe's financial capital, London.
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IoT architecture

A typical IoT architecture can consist of many physical objects connected to each other, and to a centralized cloud server. This is shown in the following diagram:

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Figure 22.1: A typical IoT network

Elements of the IoT are spread across multiple layers, and various existing reference architectures can be used to develop IoT systems. A five-layer model can be used to describe IoT, which contains a physical object layer, a device layer, a network layer, a services layer, and an application layer. Each layer or level is responsible for various functions and includes multiple components. These are shown in the following figure:

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Application layer Transportation, financial, insurance, and many others

Management layer Data processing, analytics, security management

Network layer LAN, WAN, PAN, routers

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Imran Bashir

Imran Bashir has an M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture, infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the British Computer Society (BCS). Imran has extensive experience in both the public and financial sectors, having worked on large-scale IT projects in the public sector before moving to the financial services industry. Since then, he has worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europe's financial capital, London.
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