Pankesh Patel – författare

Characterized by comprehensive digitalization of industrial products and their value chains, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) (or Industry 4.0 -- fourth industrial revolution) will not only revolutionize organizations’ product and service portfolios, but, more importantly, will lead to new and disruptive business models, requiring adaptation by end customers. As a result, challenges and opportunities abound for manufacturers, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and startups that inhabit the IIoT ecosystem. This book aims to help you understand and respond to the Industrial Internet technology trends, technologies, specifically for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) use cases.It begins with a broad overview of IIoT concepts for those, who want to understand what IIoT is. After that, the follow-on chapter dives deeper into IIoT use case scenarios specifically relevant to technical managers, programmers, and software architectures, who are responsible for developing IIoT solutions.

This book covers complete spectrum of the ICT infrastructure elements required to design, develop and deploy the ICT applications at large scale. Considering the focus of governments worldwide to develop smart cities with zero environmental footprint, the book is timely and enlightens the way forward to achieve the goal by addressing the technological aspects. In particular, the book provides an in depth discussion of the sensing infrastructure, communication protocols, computation frameworks, storage architectures, software frameworks, and data analytics. The book also presents the ICT application-related case studies in the domain of transportation, health care, energy, and disaster management, to name a few. The book is used as a reference for design, development, and large-scale deployment of ICT applications by practitioners, professionals, government officials, and engineering students.