21 Camel and the IoT
by Henryk Konsek
This chapters covers
- Basic introduction to the Internet of Things (IoT)
- Suggestions for purchasing base IoT hardware
- IoT architecture
- Reasons for using Camel for IoT applications
- Camel gateway-to-data-center connectivity
- Integrating Apache Camel and Eclipse Kura
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term used to describe a certain class of distributed IT systems that work with clients located on distributed devices connected to back-end messaging systems. Imagine a centered back-end system with many devices connected to it (like the one in figure 21.1); this is pretty much what IoT is.
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