© Alasdair Gilchrist 2016

Alasdair Gilchrist, Industry 4.0, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2047-4_8

8. Middleware Software Patterns

Alasdair Gilchrist

(1)Bangken, Nonthaburi, Thailand

The Industrial Internet requires real-time detection and reaction if it is going to work in time-critical environments, such as controlling machinery on a production line or monitoring the status of medical equipment connected to patients in a hospital. Therefore, the applications in the operations and management domain must receive notification of any change in status—crossing a predetermined threshold—immediately. This is also desirable in the world of the consumer IoT; however, with so many sensors to monitor, how can we do this?

There are two ways that applications can detect ...

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