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IoT and Edge Computing for Architects - Second Edition
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IoT and Edge Computing for Architects - Second Edition

by Perry Lea
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
632 pages
17h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Cloud and Fog Topologies

Without the cloud, IoT growth and its market would be nonexistent. Essentially, billions of endpoint devices that were historically dumb and not connected would need to manage themselves without the ability to share or aggregate data. Billions of such small embedded systems add no marginal value for customers. The value of the IoT is in the data it produces—not at a single endpoint but in thousands or millions of nodes. The cloud provides the ability to have simple sensors, cameras, switches, beacons, and actuators participate in a common language with each other. The cloud is the common denominator of the data currency.

The ubiquitous cloud metaphor refers to an infrastructure of computing services that are generally ...

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