Understanding the IoT landscape – The Building Blocks
Trevor Townsend
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Trevor Townsend
Co-founder and Chair @ Startupbootcamp Australia/Asia, Director & Investor
The number of vendors who are active in the IoT space is already mind boggling … just like Cloud, every existing IT vendor out there will be reshaping their offering so that they look like you absolutely need them if you are going to build a solution.
The trap is, of course, using the wrong tools for the job and ending up with too many layers of software, with too much baggage, to do the job properly.
The first part in understanding the IoT landscape is to understand the various layers, who plays in them, and do you need to concern yourself with them when you are selecting or building a solution. Each layer will have critical importance depending on whether you are building a consumer tool, or alternatively automating your factory … two very different propositions.
This simplified IoT architecture provides a simple picture of the major components that make up an IoT solution.
To understand more about the Building Blocks that make up the Connected Devices layer you can read more here.
intelligent agents, mobile code, it's going to be great!
It's interesting that SCADA systems typically only send out data and don't allow internet connections!
Head of Strategy & Operations, Microsoft Advertising @ InMobi
10 年Interesting! As Vint cerf had once put, its going to be tough to understand the 'vocabulary' - given the various combinations of things and their interactions possible. Once that becomes pretty well established, we are going to see a whole new set of systems built around IoT.
Senior Sales Manager - Azure Digital & App Innovation - Enterprise Commercial
10 年More to Sesh's point, there is an incredible amount of sensors/devices out of there that don't necessarily talk REST/MQTT and whatnot. Is IoT leaving out (legacy) devices? Think automated production lines who already have internal networks to program/monitor/updates intelligent devices like drives/robots/PLCs/ Sensors... If I had to expose data from these networks into a Cloud big data analytics engine, I'd need an abstraction layer to secure/mediate.