Architecting the Industrial Internet

Key constraints in analytics architecture design

The following are the key constraints in designing the analytics architecture:

• Scope: The scope is defined by the business viewpoint and in turn defines the requirements and constraints for the system. The location of the analytics depends on the business use case and value proposition as determined in the business viewpoint and becomes a question as to where and how the derived analytic results need to be acted upon. 

If the goal is local machine optimization, the analytics should be performed and acted upon locally. They could potentially be performed anywhere else in the system if the derived data and prescriptive results can be supplied to the actuator within the required time horizon. ...