Without enterprise architecture, the Internet of Things is just… things
In a recent piece in AnalyticsWeek, Jelani Harper discusses how enterprise architecture — employing containers and microservices — helps smooth the path to IoT. “Microservices are especially well suited for the IoT because of the machine-to-machine capacity of the latter. In particular, numerous IoT or Industrial Internet deployments involve machine learning.” The ability to leverage IoT or Industrial IoT requires architectural thinking that looks at how the business and its customers can benefit from streaming data and accompanying analytics.
Along with leveraging microservices and containers to benefit the business, there is a need to determine how device networks will communicate, and where data will be processed. A new report issued by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) observes there are four primary architectures associated with IoT, based on an Internet Architecture Board guidance document released in 2015. The GAO’s authors indicate four basic architecture models that can be applied to all IoT devices: Read more…