November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
556 pages
14h 42m
English
Content preview from Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things
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The edge gateway
The Edge gateway is the core of the edge device. The main responsibility of the Edge Gateway is to connect to the industrial data source to gather the data and send it to the I-IoT Hub through an internet protocol, such as MQTT, CoAP, HTTPS, or AMQP.
The most important components of the Edge Gateway are the Industrial Adapter and the IoT Adapter. The Industrial Adapter usually subscribes to the data from the industrial field and publishes it on a data bus. Typically, it implements the connector or connectors for the selected device, acting as a data source in our I-IoT data flow and making them available on the Edge data bus. The IoT Adapter, on the other hand, grabs the industrial data from the data bus and forwards it to ...