Before investigating use cases in some detail that include manufacturing or that cross several industries, let's have a quick look at use cases within industry verticals commonly associated with Industrial Internet applications. We'll look at use cases in agribusiness, alternative energy and environmental control, construction, logistics and transportation, manufacturing and CPGs, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and healthcare, and utility companies.
Many of these are deployed using cloud-based solutions as backends. Architectures deployed within these use cases will be like the architecture outlined earlier in the book, using reference architectures from the major CSPs or Industrial Internet solutions providers, combined with custom development and the deployment of edge devices and sensors.
