IoT Cloud Infrastructure

Building Blocks

Team Emertxe
IoT Cloud Infrastructure
Introduction

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Every ‘Thing’ connected to the Internet would send some
data to the cloud for further processing based on the
requirement we have
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So, it becomes important to understand the major block
involved in the cloud, which provides the facilities to
store, analyze the data with respect to the business
needs
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The next slide shows the major block you may see in
cloud
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IoT Cloud Infrastructure
Blocks – Things

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A thing is a device which would be based on
microcontroler or SOC depending on the
complexity of the requirements
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The duty of the thing is to monitor (using
sensors) the surrounding environment and take
action (using actuators) based on the situation
and send the latest report to the cloud gateway
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directly or field gateway to cloud

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It may even work based on the commands
obtained from the cloud
IoT Cloud Infrastructure
Blocks – Gateway
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A thing usually transfers the data to and fro the
cloud via field gateway
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Some device can directly connect to cloud and
some wouldn’t have the capability to do so,
hence the need of gateway arises
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Its is also possible, that gateway does some pre
processing before the data is sent cloud, like
reducing its size, filtering duplicate data and so
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IoT Cloud Infrastructure
Blocks – Cloud Gateway
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Allow us to achieve secure data transmission
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between field gateways and cloud IoT servers

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Ensures compatibility with various protocols
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Communicates with field gateways using
different protocols supported by it
IoT Cloud Infrastructure
Blocks – Stream Data Controller
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Provides effective transition of input data to a
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Should make sure no data is lost or corrupted
IoT Cloud Infrastructure
Blocks – Data Lake
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Store the data generated by connected devices
in its natural format
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When the data is needed for meaningful insights
it’s extracted from a data lake and loaded to a
data warehouse.
IoT Cloud Infrastructure
Blocks – Data Warehouse
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Filtered and pre processed data needed for
meaningful insights is extracted from a data
lake to a data warehouse
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Contains only cleaned, structured and matched
data (compared to a data lake which contains
all sorts of data generated by sensors)
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Also, data warehouse stores context information
about things and sensors (for example, where
sensors are installed) and the commands control
applications send to things
IoT Cloud Infrastructure
Blocks – Machine Learning
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Helps to create more precise and more efficient
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models for control applications

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Models are regularly updated based on the
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historical data accumulated in a data warehouse
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When the applicability and efficiency of new
models are tested and approved by data
analysts, new models are used by control
applications
IoT Cloud Infrastructure
Blocks – Data Analytic
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A layer which should help to find trends and gain
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actionable insights
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Should help to identify inefficiencies and work
out the ways to improve an IoT system (make it
more reliable, more customer-oriented)
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Also, the correlations and patterns found
manually can further contribute to creating
algorithms for control applications
IoT Cloud Infrastructure
Blocks – Control Application
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A Layer, that facilitate to send automatic
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commands and alerts to the device

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These commands in turn could be stored in data
warehouse just to do error handling, for
example the command is sent to device but it
did not execute it!, may be there is a issue in
connectivity, gateways or actuators
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On the other side, storing commands from
control apps may contribute to security, as an
IoT system can identify that some commands are
too strange or come in too big amounts which
may evidence security breaches
IoT Cloud Infrastructure
Blocks – Control Application
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Control applications can be either based on
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Rule: Work according to the rules stated by
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ML: Works using models which are regularly
updated with the historical data stored in a data
warehouse.
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This block may provide a better automation
feature, but a override option always necessary
to influence the behavior of the device through
it!
IoT Cloud Infrastructure
Blocks – Business Logic
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Every business logic is different, this block
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should be independent of the management,

maintenance, and scale "state machinery"
factors
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Should allow us to monitor and control the
devices
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With a mobile or web app, users can monitor the
state of their things, send commands to control
applications, set the options of automatic
behavior
IoT Cloud Infrastructure
Blocks – Security Monitoring
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The top concerns in the internet of things
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Connected devices produce huge volumes of
data, which need to be securely transmitted and
protected from hackers
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Most importantly, the thing is to be secured
enough that, the hackers don’t get it and
control the entire IoT subsystem!!
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To prevent such problems, it makes sense to log
and analyze the commands sent by control
applications to things, monitor the actions of
users and store all these data in the cloud
IoT Cloud Infrastructure
Blocks – Device Administration
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Some actions are required to manage the
performance of connected devices like
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Device management
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Configuration and control
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Monitoring and diagnostics
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Software updates and maintenance
IoT Cloud Infrastructure
Blocks – User Administration
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To provide control over the users having access
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to an IoT system
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Involves identifying users, their roles, access
levels and ownership in a system and provide
options to
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Adding and removing users
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Managing user settings
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Controlling access of various users to certain
information
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Permission to perform certain operations within a
system, controlling and recording user activities
and more.
Thank You