Orchestrating and Automating Security for the Internet of Things: Delivering Advanced Security Capabilities from Edge to Cloud for IoT

Chapter 5. Current IoT Architecture Design and Challenges

The topics covered in this chapter include

■   What, Why, and Where? A Summary

■   Approaches to IoT Architecture Design

■   General Approaches

■   Industrial/Market Focused

■   NFV- and SDN-Based Architectures for IoT

■   Approaches to IoT Security Architecture

■   The IoT Platform Design Today

The number of IoT platforms is growing at a rate similar to the growing number of approaches to IoT platform design and the variety of capabilities on offer. The IoT Platform Companies List (2017), from IoT Analytics, found more than 450 different current IoT platform offerings. This demonstrates a huge increase of more than 50 percent in a single year, growing from 300 in 2016. This number will ...