CHAPTER 8

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Pathways to the Internet of Things

This book has described the details of an emerging new architecture for the Internet of Things. But new architectures rarely displace legacy systems unless there is an overarching benefit that drives their adoption. For the IoT, the major benefit can be expressed in the unique new relationships possible between the myriad end devices and the big data servers that analyze and control the data flowing to and from those end devices.

Data Drives a Change

Fundamentally, the coming billions of Internet of Things devices will simply generate too much data to be analyzed in traditional ways. Instead of the ...

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