PART 01
Part I
Part I · Foundations: From Industrial Software to the IoT Platform Base
Starting from the limits of industrial software (SCADA/DCS/MES/PLC), this part shows how an IoT platform supplies the three missing capabilities: unified data, open interfaces, and closed-loop automation. It covers system architecture, sensing, communication, and platform-side data processing.
Part I · Foundations: From Industrial Software to the IoT Platform Base
Starting from the limits of industrial software (SCADA/DCS/MES/PLC), this part shows how an IoT platform supplies the three missing capabilities: unified data, open interfaces, and closed-loop automation. It covers system architecture, sensing, communication, and platform-side data processing.
Chapters in this part
- Chapter 1. IoT Overview: From Industrial Software to AI Agents — Starting from the capability boundaries of traditional industrial software, this chapter surveys the definition of the Internet of Things, its technical evolution, and the AIoT restructuring — building a top-down view from device connectivity to intelligent decision-making.
- Chapter 2. IoT System Architecture — Compares the classic four-layer architecture with the five-layer architecture of the AI era, traces each layer's responsibilities along the data loop, and uses IoT DC3 to show how the microservices collaborate.
- Chapter 3. Sensing-Layer Fundamentals — From sensors, RFID, and positioning to edge nodes, on-device AI, and thing models — how physical signals become data a platform can understand.
- Chapter 4. Network-Layer Communication Technologies — Compares mainstream communication technologies and their fit, analyzes protocol fragmentation, and presents the design of a unified access layer, a driver framework, and a multi-protocol gateway.
- Chapter 5. Platform Layer and Data Processing — Following the data path from device to cloud, this chapter covers core platform components, cloud-edge collaboration, data storage, and intelligent processing — the engineering whole picture of a reliable data base.