Introduction to CPS and IoT Platforms and Orchestration

The development of the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is leading to a major change in production systems. The change is being propagated into the wave of transforming the existing system with a vertical structure into the corresponding horizontal platform or middleware. 

At the same time, the way of acquiring IIoT data from an individual system is being altered to the way of being increasingly centralized through an integrated middleware of a scalable server or through a large platform. 

That said, middleware-based IIoT data acquisition must consider multiple factors, such as infrastructure (e.g., operation environment and network), protocol heterogeneity, interoperability (e.g., links with legacy systems), real-time, and security.

This nugget will address these topics and will also explore the topic of orchestration.