School of Computing Science and Engineering

Course Code: CSIO4700 Course Name: IoT for Industries

IIOT Components

Faculty Name: Mr. C.Vairavel Program Name:

 Prerequisite/Recapitulations

• Basic knowledge about IoT

 Objectives

• TO Study about Components of IIoT

 Components to An Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

• The four main parts of any IIoT system are intelligent assets, a data
communications infrastructure, analytics and applications to interpret

and act on the data, and people..

 Components to An Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
• Intelligent assets include machines or other assets enabled with sensors, processors, memory,
and communications capability.
• In certain cases, these assets may have an associated virtual entity or support software-
defined configuration and performance.
• Intelligent assets generate more data and share information across the value chain. Some
intelligent assets will eventually be self-aware or operate autonomously.
• In addition to the Internet, data communications between these assets and other entities will
often leverage network technologies such as LTE, ZigBee, Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.15-4, and cloud-
based computing infrastructure with the storage to accommodate big data requirements.
• Powerful analytics and related software will enhance asset optimization as well as system
optimization.
 Components to An Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
• Intelligent Assets
• This isn't going away.
• The data available today from sensors, motors, instruments, and the like all dwarf the
amount of data produced when started 20 years ago.
• We have to learn how to harness all of this data, find what's useful, and drive profits with
the intelligence we gain.
 Components to An Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
• Data Infrastructure
• As little as 10 years ago, having PLC's or other control systems networked in many
industries was uncommon.
• Today, it is a different story, so we must all be prepared to deal with the data deluge that
comes from intelligent assets.
 Components to An Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
• Data Infrastructure
• As little as 10 years ago, having PLC's or other control systems networked in many
industries was uncommon.
• Today, it is a different story, so we must all be prepared to deal with the data deluge that
comes from intelligent assets.
 Components to An Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
• People
• This is the most critical component of all.
• Even with the advent of machine learning and cloud-based predictive analytics packages
that have machine learning content like Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, IPLeanware's
Braincube, and others, it still takes people to understand the data enough to write the
algorithms for the above tools.
• It still takes people to figure out what indicators have the most impact on the business.
• It still takes people to shape the data to get meaning out of the tools.
 Components to An Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
• Analytics
• This is where the data gets turned into knowledge. we believe that analytics and their
use will revolutionize manufacturing and those that don't embrace them will be left
behind.
• The context is key with data and analytics certainly need context to be effective.
• However, it is people who understand what context is important to enable the analytics
and make them useful.
• Analytics do not create themselves, people create them.
 Critical Components of an Industrial IoT Ecosystem
• Hardware
• IoT Endpoints or Sensors/Actuators
• IoT Edge Platforms or Gateways
• Software
• IoT Platform Hub
• User Interface (UI)
• Existing Enterprise Applications
 Hardware
• Hardware or devices are the first components of which most of the stakeholders are aware.
• According to a survey by CompTiA, 72 of the respondents are familiar with the hardware
components in an IoT ecosystem.
 Hardware-IoT Endpoints or Sensors/Actuators
• IoT endpoint or sensor is some form of hardware and/or software that runs logic to detect
or cause a change in the state of things. For example, it can be a chipset for sensing,
connecting, and processing; an actuator for moving or controlling.

• IoT endpoints typically generate data about things. The data can be analyzed both at the IoT
endpoint or gateway level and at the IoT platform level. Enterprise-oriented IoT endpoints
include operational technology assets like manufacturing equipment, jet turbines, and office
buildings.

• Although most IoT endpoints interact with the IoT hub via IoT gateway, some IoT edge
technologies support "mesh computing". Examples are consumer products like
smartphones, smart watches, and televisions that interact with each other.
 Hardware-IoT Edge Platforms or Gateways
• IoT endpoints are often connected to an IoT gateway, which provides management, control,
and transmission of data.
• IoT gateways intermediate between one or many IoT endpoints.
• Compared with direct edge-to-cloud approaches, IoT gateways can support increased local
IoT device autonomy and IoT device management, as well as scalability, and can manage
heterogeneous, multivendor endpoints.
• At one extreme, IoT gateways offer all the functional capabilities that are available in the
IoT platform hub.
• At the other extreme, IoT gateways are more limited in scope - perhaps primarily only
providing aggregated device connectivity and communications.
Software
 Software - IoT Platform Hub
• By making use of the IoT gateways, data, ingested from endpoints by IoT sensors , is
transmitted to a centralized IoT platform hub.
• The critical roles of an IoT platform hub include IoT device provisioning, management, and
control; data analytics, and back-end system integration. Most commonly used IoT
platform hubs are cloud-delivered PaaS
• IoT endpoints connect directly - or indirectly via IoT gateways - to a centralized IoT
platform hub.
• IoT platform hubs perform numerous key roles, including IoT device provisioning,
management, and control, as well as IoT device data ingestion, analysis and back-end
system integration. Most IoT platform hubs are cloud-delivered (as PaaS), but some
providers make them available as on-premises software (or both). IoT platform hubs
generally combine IoT-specific application platform capabilities (for example, IoT device
provisioning and communications) with general-purpose application platform capabilities
(for example, data persistence, application logic runtime, and analytics).
 Software - User Interface (UI)
• A user-friendly UI provides a visible and tangible layer where the end-users can simply
access the information without putting any extra efforts.
• These applications should be able to deliver the IoT data in the simplest manner.
 Existing Enterprise Applications
• It is one of the components which is least focused on during the IoT implementation in
earlier days. Companies typically focus significant focus on instrumenting their "things"
and picking an IoT platform hub to meet IT project requirements. However, they
underestimate the degree of impact these projects will have on their existing enterprise
applications.
• A successful IoT business solution implementation cannot be realized until they are
seamlessly integrated with relevant enterprise applications to help improve core business
processes.
 References

1. Vijay Madisetti and ArshdeepBahga, “Internet of Things (A Hands-on-

Approach)”, 1st Edition, VPT, 2014
2. Michahelles, “Architecting the Internet of Things”, ISBN 978-3- 642-19156-5 e-
ISBN 978-3-642-19157-2, Springer
3. Francis daCosta, “Rethinking the Internet of Things: A Scalable Approach to
Connecting Everything”, 1st Edition, Apress Publications, 2013
4. CunoPfister, Getting Started with the Internet of Things, O‟Reilly Media, 2011,
ISBN: 978-1-4493-9357-1.
5. https://nasscom.in/system/files/secure-pdf/IoT_in_India_report_05072016.pdf