In Chapter 2, Understanding the Industrial Process and Devices, we looked at how industrial data is generated, gathered, and transferred to the cloud by familiarizing ourselves with computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM). We also looked at industrial equipment, such as DCS, PLCs, and SCADA, and network protocols, such as Fieldbus, ControlBus, and OPC. This gave us a picture of the whole path of industrial signals, from when they are generated by sensors in a factory to when they are processed in the cloud. In Chapter 3, Industrial Data Flow and Devices, and Chapter 4, Implementing the Industrial IoT Data Flow, we talked in detail about data acquisition, data sources, related protocols, and the edge devices used to ...
The standard I-IoT flow
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