Chapter 4: Diving Deep into the IoT Backend (the IoT Cloud)
In previous chapters, we mentioned the terms Internet of Things (IoT) cloud and IoT backend quite a lot. In those chapters, we were focusing mainly on IoT endpoint devices, IoT Edge devices, and the connectivity between those devices and the internet.
The goal of the previous chapters was to show the ability to sense the physical world and act upon the useful business operation data collected from the physical world through IoT devices, then through the different IoT connectivity options; such generated and collected IoT data is sent to the IoT backend operation and control systems, or IoT cloud in short, for further processing and analysis.
The sensing part is directed from the IoT devices toward the IoT backend systems, which follows the IoT telemetry design pattern. The opposite direction is from the IoT backend systems toward the IoT devices to act upon and control those IoT devices, which follows...
