3 Critical Components of an Industrial IoT Ecosystem
IIoT infrastructure components include the IoT or edge gateway, sensors, actuators and edge nodes.
The process of IIoT ranges from gathering enormous field data from the industrial floor, transmitting it through connectivity nodes, analyzing it in servers and processing the data into actionable analytics on a cloud platform.
Over the past few years, IoT has become one of the most important technologies of the 21st century. Now that we can connect everyday objects—kitchen appliances, cars, thermostats, baby monitors—to the internet via embedded devices, seamless communication is possible between people, processes, and things.
What is an Industrial IoT Sensor? An Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sensor monitors machines and systems to provide real-time data to a maintenance staff. Instead of relying on periodic checks by maintenance technicians, IIoT sensors provide around-the-clock “eyes” on critical assets.
An Industrial IoT platform (IIoT Platform) aggregates real-time data from hardware, software systems, sensors, and other data points into a centralized environment, which can usually be accessed by a wide group of users.
IIoT stands for the Industrial Internet of Things and refers to a network of connected devices in the industrial sector. It is a subset of the Internet of Things (IoT). The defining characteristic of connected devices on IIoT networks is that they transfer data without human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.
However, RFID and IoT are different in important ways. RFID generally refers to a technology through which users read data from special RFID tags affixed to items. IoT generally refers to a broader array of technology for the communication and control of smart devices.
IIoT key technologies
Industrial IoT depends on many technologies but the key technologies primarily consist of Artificial intelligence, Cyber security, Cloud computing, Edge computing, and Data mining.
Six types of IoT protocols and network standards. Devices are generally connected to the internet with an IP (internet protocol) network. But, devices can also be connected locally via Bluetooth or NFC (near-field communication). The differences between both types of connections are power, range, and memory used.
