Why the Architecture of IoT is very interesting to know about?
IoT architecture:
Now talking about the an important concept, which is the overall architecture associated with IoT, when I come down to the architecture there are mainly three fundamental layers associated with the overall architecture, or overall the IoT is domain as such.
- The first layer is the perception when I talk about the perception layer, it becomes a layer wherein you gather information using the various sensors and actuators.
This gathers all the information around it and uses it as per the user’s requirement.
Once I have this it comes to the responsibility of the network layer to transport or to move this ,] information from the sensors to an application that will process and give insights from this information.
- The application layer does the same, it understands the information that it comes to us and it also helps you understand what is needed, what is happening and what can be done as well.
- There is another layer which is the transport layer. When I have the transport layer,
This mainly deals with how the information is going to be processed from the sensor to the processing layer or how it has to be moved from here to there
This can be done using 3d sensors, it can be done using LANs Bluetooth, RFID, or NFC as well.
There are various other ways as well. And these have various shortcomings or various standards also incorporated to create a standard measure.
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An example of this could be an IPV6 format where you use shorter forms for identifying these devices. IPV4 in itself has a limit. And this is why IPV6 shortcode is also used.
Keywords or Key-Components in IoT:
Next, let’s talk about the various taxonomies associated with IoT. These are the keywords that make the architecture or which makes the entire ecosystem necessary and useful as such.
- The first is perception. Now again, we’ve talked about the perception layer as well perception here basically means to collect the data using various sensors that are around us. Now, once the data is gathered, then I’m going to begin processing.
- Now the processing or the pre-processing here can also help us to gather or take valid information, you need to understand that most sensors stream real-time data and this is a huge amount of data that comes around.
If I can ensure that only valid information is taken ahead, then it makes it quite useful for me to get insight as such.
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- Then comes the communication Now again, in communication-end, there are various protocols and standards that you use in order to achieve a very seamless system that’s out there, based on the various components and architecture that you use, each communication protocol has its advantages and its disadvantages as well.
- Now we have middleware that actually acts as an abstraction, which hides the necessary hardware details. And the application does not directly need to interact with the sensor, it just needs to pass on or process information or create a request as well. And this is where middleware really comes into the uses. Or it comes to the advantage of the overall system as well.
Now, one thing that’s really important in the IoT domain is to understand how the overall environment really works out. So for a business or for an organization, it’s essential that you understand how each of your smart devices works.
So, let’s say I create a Smart Water Filter, if I create a smart AC that’s out there, my business layer will actually give me an overall insight of how each one of these devices is working. How the challenges are information is gathered from them as well.
The user’s experience or user information also will help me improve my overall business as such. Finally, we have an application. Now the application is one of the collection or this is what you usually most useful for your interface, or do you use to process your information now, applications can do various usage with respect to it.
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This is what usually most people look at. And this is what we interact with. It’s the other segments that really are what brings out the interest in the IoT domain as well.
Now, these are just some of the examples where IoT is being used, you need to understand that IoT today is restricted only by the idea of its user, there is no such domain wherein you cannot use IoT.
IoT is improving every other domains as well:
Each domain has a useful insight or a useful application to IoT as well be it from the energy consumption segment, be it an architectural segment, be it agriculture, with home automation, smart environment, health, and fitness.
If you feel today, there is no IoT implementation in a domain, then I can assure you, it’s only because no one really has imagined a solution to using IoT in that domain as such.
So, that’s it for today guys! I will be back soon.