As per Gartner, the number of connected devices around the world is going to reach 50 billion by the year 2020. Just imagine the magnitude and scale of the hyper-connectedness that is being forged every moment, as we read through this exciting chapter.
As we can see in the preceding figure, a typical IoT-based scenario is composed of the following fundamental building blocks:
- IoT edge device
- IoT cloud platform
An IoT device is used to serve as a bridge between existing machines on the ground and an IoT cloud platform.
The IoT cloud platform provides a cloud-based infrastructure backbone for data acquisition, data storage, and computing power for data analytics and reporting.
The Arduino platform can be effectively used for prototyping IoT devices for almost any IoT solution very rapidly.
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