Learn the ins and outs of the Industrial Internet of things through subjects ranging from its history and evolution, right up to what the future holds. About This Book * Design an application that can connect to and control thousands of machines, *Leverage the power and features of a platform to monitor, perform analytics and maintain the industrial internet, *Integrate your systems with other softwares and devices to create a strongly networked internet of things Who This Book Is For Software Architects who are interested in learning how to architect solutions for the Industrial Internet will gain immensely from this book. The content also has relevance for technically inclined Line of Business leaders investing in these solutions. What You Will Learn * Learn the history of the Industrial Internet and why an architectural approach is needed *Understand the significance of working with the Line of Business leadership and key metrics to be gathered here *Connect business requirements to the functional architecture *Gain the right expectation as to the capabilities of Industrial Internet applications and how to assess them *Understand what data and analytics components should be included in your architecture solution *Understand deployment location trade-offs and management and security considerations, along with the future pros and cons of these solutions In Detail The Industrial Internet or the IIOT has gained a lot of traction with many leaders driving the revolution with their cloud platforms. With this transformation, industries will be enabled to have all their devices connected to one platform, where they can integrate devices, reduce downtime, analyze and increase performance and finally reduce wastes, costs and unproductivity. To ensure a smooth integration of such machines and devices, the system needs to be precisely architected in such a way, keeping in mind the domain, scalability, nature of devices, connectivity, etc. This book is aimed at architects who want to achieve just that. It will begin by giving them a bird's eye view of what the IIOT is, and how it evolved from the industrial revolution. Then we will introduce a few aspects of our architectural approach and illustrate how they feed on each other, after which we will look at gathering business requirements and the significance of doing this early and often. Then, we will map the gathered business requirements to a functional architecture and discuss the viability and feasibility of adopting Industrial Internet Applications. We will then cover the key components in a data and analytics architecture, and moving on from there, we'll get into choosing where to deploy Industrial Internet solutions and management considerations. After this, we will get into security and discuss securing devices, network, and back-end infrastructure. Governance and industry compliance will be covered next, and after this, we will move to the final part of the book, where we'll discuss the varied use-cases of IIOT in various industries. We will end the book by taking a glance at the future and discussing where the Industrial Internet could be headed and the impact it will make. Through the course of this book, the reader will be taken on a multi-disciplinary journey that combines the operational and the enterprise view. By the Final chapter, readers will be secure in the knowledge that they are equipped to embrace the benefits of the burgeoning IIOT.