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Anand TamboliBuild Your Own IoT Platformhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4498-2_2

2. The Building Blocks of an IoT Solution

Anand Tamboli1 
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Sydney, NSW, Australia
 

The overall hype around IoT has unexpectedly hindered the understanding of how it works. If you ask 20 people about how it works, you will get 20 answers. Most of those answers would cover how outcomes of IoT or manifested IoT solutions work; not the way IoT works. There is a lot of technology under the hood that makes IoT possible.

In this chapter, I discuss the following:

  • The key building blocks of an IoT solution

  • A detailed block diagram of an IoT platform

  • How blocks work together in a meaningful way

  • A proposed approach for building our platform

These topics will ...

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