What this book covers

Chapter 1, The Industrial Internet Revolution, describes how we reached today's IIoT solutions and the role of the architect.

Chapter 2, Architectural Approaches for Success, talks about architecture viewpoints, the implementation viewpoint, data and analytics, and using proof of concepts to evaluate design.

Chapter 3, Gathering Business Requirements, covers topics such as preparing for business discovery, gathering critical success factors, business benefits and key performance indicators, gaining an understanding of skills, evaluating data sources, value from early mockups and proof of concepts, prioritizing stages, building the business case, and selling the project.

Chapter 4, Mapping Requirements to a Functional Viewpoint, describes the control, operations, information, application, and business domains, and DevOps and the agile development movement.

Chapter 5, Assessing Industrial Internet Applications, covers architecture patterns, build versus buy considerations, asset performance management, analytics, the Brilliant Factory, and a field services application.

Chapter 6, Defining the Data and Analytics Architecture, describes typical requirements and capabilities, the Lambda architecture, analytics, machine learning and analyst tools, early Industrial Internet applications and historians, and the speed and batch layers in the architecture.

Chapter 7, Defining a Deployment Architecture, covers past and current architecture, on-premises and cloud deployment, designing for the edge, networking considerations, device management, management and support infrastructure, and consumption models.

Chapter 8, Securing the Industrial Internet, describes examples of cybersecurity attacks, core building blocks, NIST cybersecurity frameworks, security guidelines, securing devices and communications to the cloud and backend, risk assessment, and best practices.

Chapter 9, Governance and Assuring Compliance, covers assessing governance, risk and compliance, international compliance, consortia and emerging standards, government and public institutions, industry compliance, and determining the guidelines that apply.

Chapter 10, Industrial Internet Use Cases in Various Industries, describes summarized use cases in various industries and then provides more in-depth looks at manufacturing, predictive maintenance, asset tracking and handling, and environmental impact and abatement.

Chapter 11, A Vision of the Future, covers the possible impacts of maturing frameworks and applications, evolution in edge devices, networking, human machine interfaces and industrial robotics, and the applicability of blockchain and quantum computing in the future.

Appendix, Sources, provides a list of sources the authors used throughout this book that might prove useful in your own research.

In several chapters of this book, we apply what is learned to a supply chain optimization example that can be relevant in many industries.