The value creation potential of the Internet of Things (IoT), that is the connection of arbitrary objects to the Internet, lies in the creation of business benefits through accessing and processing the circa 80 Zettabytes (1 ZB = 10^21 Bytes) of data produced by an estimated 40 billions of IoT endpoints (prognosis for 2025). This contribution derives and presents the information technology-related fundament and basis required to be able to reap this potential. Quantity and heterogeneity of the devices and machines especially encountered in the industry at large in the so-called industrial IoT (IIoT) require the use of a typically cloud-based IoT platform for logical concentration and more efficient management of the -- unavoidable in industry -- complexity. Stringent non-functional requirements especially regarding (low) latency, (high) bandwidth, access to large processing capacities, and security and privacy-related aspects necessitate the deployment of intermediary IoT gateways endowed with different capability sets in the edge continuum between IoT endpoints and the IoT platform in the cloud. This will be illustrated in the form of two use cases from corporate projects using a component architecture view point. Finally we argue that this classical concept of IoT projects needs to be strategically widened towards application integration (key word: IT/OT integration) and API management resulting in the coupling of a suitable integration and API management platforms to the IoT platform in order to use this end-to-end understanding of IoT/IIoT to fully leverage the innovation-stimulating and transformational character of IIoT and Industry 4.0.
翻译:互联网Tings(IoT)的创造价值潜力,即与因特网任意天体的联系,在于通过访问和处理大约400亿 IoT终点(2025年预测)产生的Circa 80 Zettabytes (ZB=10°21 Bytes)(约400亿 IoT端点的预测)数据,创造80 Zettabytes (1 ZB =10°21 Bytes),创造商业效益。这种贡献产生并展示了获得这一潜力所需的与信息技术相关的资金基础和基础。在所谓的工业IoT (IIT) 工业性IoT (IIOT) 中,设备和机器的数量和异质性都要求使用一个典型的基于云性的IoTT平台, 以逻辑集中和更高效地管理该行业 -- -- 在工业 -- 不可避免 -- 复杂 -- -- 数据端点上产生的数据。这种不起作用的要求,特别是(低) 带宽的带宽、获得大型处理能力以及安全和与隐私有关的方面,需要部署具有不同能力的IoTLOT的中间端平台/平台,在IOT的边缘链点与IOT的平台上具有不同功能的平台,要求。 需要使用一个典型的基于云基的IOT平台的基于云的IOT平台,这需要,最终的IO-T平台,最终的IL-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-L-IML-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-IM-