Architecting the Industrial Internet

A Vision of the Future

In Chapter 1, The Industrial Internet Revolution, we described the evolution of today's Industrial Internet. Over the past decade, the pace of introduction of smarter edge devices and the ability to analyze massive amounts of data have greatly increased. New IIoT backend infrastructure deployments more frequently take place in flexible and highly scalable public clouds.

However, today's architecture remains complex and requires a broad mix of skills to properly design and implement a solution. Security holes exposed in incompletely planned architectures or poorly implemented solutions can be and have been exploited. The task of creating a viable and sustainable IIoT architecture is challenging.

In this closing chapter, ...