Hands-On Edge Analytics with Azure IoT

Basic edge analytics architecture

By basic edge analytics architecture, I am referring to an environment where the platform is made up of just the core physical components—a system where a standard operating system with custom code is used in place of a platform such as Microsoft Azure IoT. Let's face it—there are times when a simple solution is required and the costs of a vendor-specific platform cannot be justified. 

A basic edge analytics application consists of three major components. They are as follows:

• Sensors and actuators
• Edge computers
• Cloud-based dashboards

We can see how these components are connected together in the following diagram:

As we can see in the preceding diagram, our sensors and actuators are responsible for the ...