July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
378 pages
10h 26m
English
Content preview from Analytics for the Internet of Things (IoT)
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Summary
In this chapter, we reviewed what is meant by elastic analytics and learned the advantages of using cloud infrastructure for IoT analytics. Designing for scale was discussed along with distributed computing.
The two main cloud providers were introduced, AWS and Microsoft Azure. We also reviewed a purpose-built software platform, ThingWorx, made for IoT devices, communications, and analysis.