Industry 4.0

• A unique book on business to business (b2) Internet of Things (IoT); most IoT books face the consumer.

• Apress is a leading publisher of Maker and Internet of Things books.

• Industry 4.0 as a model for re-industrialization of existing manufacturing and other tradition-based industries

• Alasdair Gilchrist is an industry writer and an expert who has spent his career (25 years) as a professional technician, support manager, network and security architect, and company director in the fields of IT, Data Communications, Mobile Telecoms and latterly Cloud/SDN/NFV technologies.

Explains the Industrial Internet of Things Uses industry 4.0 as a model for re-industrialization of existing manufacturing and other tradition-based industries Provides examples of successful Industry 4.0 implementation

Autorentext

Alasdair Gilchrist has spent his career (25 years) as a professional technician, support manager, network and security architect, and company director in the fields of IT, Data Communications, Mobile Telecoms and latterly Cloud/SDN/NFV technologies. He has project managed both agile SDLC software development as well as technical network architecture design. He has hands on technical experience in the deployment and integration of systems in enterprise, cloud, fixed/mobile telecoms, and service provider networks. He is therefore knowledgeable in a wide range of technologies from both a technical high-level and detailed technical design and implementation perspective. He is also conversant on best business practices, governance and compliance. Therefore, he likes to write articles or books in the business or technology fields were he feels his expertise is of value. He has published many articles to date.

Inhalt

1. Introduction to the Industrial Internet.- 2. Industrial Internet Use Cases.- 3. The Technical & Business Innovators of the Industrial Internet.- 4. IIoT Reference Architecture.- 5. Designing Industrial Internet Systems.- 6. Examining the Access Network Technology and Protocols.- 7. Examining the Middleware Transport Protocols.- 8. Middleware Software Patterns.- 9. Software Design Concepts.- 10. Middleware Industrial Internet of Things Platforms.- 11. IIoT WAN Technologies and Protocols.- 12. Securing the Industrial Internet.- 13. Introducing Industry 4.0.- 14. Smart Factory.- 15. Getting from here to there - a roadmap.