Enterprise IoT

Preface

We live in fast-moving times, so not everybody will read this book from cover to cover. To help you to better navigate this book, we have provided a visual overview of the book’s structure (see “Structure of This Book”), along with some advice on where different types of readers should focus. Think of it as the program you might get at the opera.

Just as the overture warms up the crowd, Chapter 1 provides some background, introduces the main characters, and asks a number of questions that we hope to answer as we progress. By the way, spectators are allowed to talk during an overture (but not during a prelude, or so we are told), so comments in the online edition are very welcome.

Like in any good opera, there are numerous characters, each linked by complex relationships. Chapter 2 provides definitions of the main elements of IoT and introduces different IoT scenarios to explain the relationships between the different elements.

Structure of This Book

This section provides an overview of the three main parts of this book:

Part I: IoT Application Domains and Case Studies

The first part of the book introduces some important IoT application domains and case studies. The focus here is on the enterprise side of the IoT, with applications such as automotive and transportation, manufacturing and supply chain, energy, and other industrial uses (hence the name “Enterprise IoT”). This is followed by a set of associated case studies. Our analysis of these case studies provides the ...