September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
412 pages
11h 12m
English
book
Industrial Internet Application Development
by Alena Traukina, Jayant Thomas, Prashant Tyagi, Veera Kishore Reddipalli
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IIoT system architecture
IIoT system architecture, in its simplistic view, consists of three tiers (as the following diagram illustrates):
- Tier 1: Devices
- Tier 2: The Edge Gateway
- Tier 3: The cloud
Three-tier architecture of a typical IIoT end-to-end application
Tier 1 of the IIoT architecture consists of networked components, typically sensors and actuators, from the IIoT equipment, which use protocols such as Modbus, Zigbee, or proprietary protocols, to connect to an Edge Gateway. Tier 2 includes sensor data aggregation systems called Edge Gateways that provide functionality, such as preprocessing of the data, securing connectivity to ...