: Jasbir Singh Dhaliwal
: Architectural Patterns and Techniques for Developing IoT Solutions Build IoT applications using digital twins, gateways, rule engines, AI/ML integration, and related patterns
: Packt Publishing
: 9781803247632
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As the Internet of Things (IoT) expands and moves to new domains, architectural patterns need to enable faster digital transformation and more uniform development. Through numerous use cases and examples, this book helps you conceptualize and implement IoT architectural patterns and use them in diverse contexts in real-world scenarios.
The book begins by introducing you to a variety of IoT architectural patterns and then helps you understand how they are used in domains such as retail, smart manufacturing, consumer, smart cities, and smart agriculture. You'll also find out how cross-cutting concerns such as security require special considerations in the IoT context. As you advance, you'll discover all the nuances that are inherent in each layer of IoT reference architecture, including considerations related to analytics for edge/constrained devices, data visualizations, and so on. In the concluding chapters, you'll explore emerging technologies such as blockchain, 3D printing, 5G, generative AI, quantum computing, and large language models (LLMs) that enhance IoT capabilities to realize broader applications.
By the end of this book, you'll have learned to architect scalable, secure, and unique IoT solutions in any domain using the power of IoT architectural patterns, and you will be able to avoid the pitfalls that typically derail IoT projects.

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Introduction to IoT Patterns


TheInternet of Things (IoT) has gained significant traction in the recent past and this field is poised for exponential growth in the coming years. This growth will span all the major domains/industry verticals, including consumer, home, manufacturing, health, travel, and transportation. This book will provide a novel perspective to those who want to understand the fundamental IoT patterns and how these patterns can be mixed and matched to implement unique and diverseIoT applications.

This introductory chapter details the architectural considerations that you must bear in mind while designing IoT solutions. Architecting IoT solutions is challenging as there are additional complexities due to the physical hardware selection, complex integrations, and connectivity requirements involved. This chapter also serves as a foundation for the patterns that will be introduced in thesubsequent chapters.

In this chapter, we will cover thefollowing topics:

  • An overviewof IoT
  • IoTreference architecture
  • Unique requirements of IoTuse cases
  • Recommended architecture principlesand considerations

An overview of IoT


IoT has generated a lot of interest recently and has moved from a purely academic pursuit to the point where real use cases are being realized. IoT implementation is inherently complex due to multiple and diverse technologies (embedded, cloud, edge, big data,artificial intelligence (AI),machine learning (ML), and so on) being involved and due to the range of deployment options that are available (constraint devices in the field to the almost unlimited availablity of compute and other resources in the cloud). IoT enables diverse use cases and spans multiple domains (home automation, healthcare, track-and-trace, connected vehicles, autonomous driving,and more).

The relevance of IoT is only going to increase in the coming years because of thefollowing reasons:

  • IoT use cases encompass physical and virtual worlds and as a result, interesting and rich use cases can be developed (compared to purely virtual/software systems such as word processors, ERP systems, and more). It can be said that the scope and variety of IoT use cases is only limited by aperson’s imagination.
  • The immense potential of IoT has been validated by both academics and implementors. This can be attributed to thefollowing reasons:
    • The increased capability and efficiency of hardware components with a continous decrease in cost (and size) in line with Moore’s law. Efficient battery utilization by the current generation of hardware components has also reduced the hassles of frequentbattery replacement.
    • The rise of commercial cloud providers (hyperscalers), which enables unlimited scalability in term