Working with Data and Analytics

Managing data and performing analytics on it is a crucial aspect of any Internet of Things (IoT) deployment. It allows you to gain insights based on the large amounts of data generated by IoT devices and make appropriate decisions based on data to improve operations, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. With Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other cloud providers, there are a variety of services that you can use to analyze and visualize data that you have obtained from your IoT devices, from simple data storage and retrieval options that you can configure without much difficulty to more complex analytics and machine learning (ML) tools, which you may have to learn and fine-tune, that you perform as part of the analysis.

Often, data analytics is the piece of the puzzle that completes the picture that we are trying to architect with our IoT networks, as even with edge networks in which we process data on the edge nodes to reduce costs, there is usually...