Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things

IoT key technologies

The IoT is sometimes used as a synonym of big data, is sometimes confused with the cloud, and is sometimes linked to machine learning and artificial intelligence. All of these things are partially true:

• IoT uses big data technology to store data
• IoT is normally deployed on the cloud to improve scalability
• IoT uses advanced analytics to process data

However, on the flip side, there's this to consider:

• IoT is focused on a data stream, rather than having huge amounts (petabytes) of data storage
• IoT can use on-premises solutions through virtualization technology
• Machine learning on IoT is not as productive as simple threshold rules or physics-based analytics

These concepts have been highlighted by the The Eclipse Foundation's ...