IIoT applications – an introduction 

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is designed to harness the power of IIoT and cloud in health care, manufacturing, and industrial environments to monitor performance, optimize operations, and solve problems remotely, all using IIoT applications. The focus of IIoT applications is on connecting equipment such as turbines, jet engines, and locomotives, to the cloud and to each other, in meaningful ways. As such, IIoT application design has many similarities with typical IoT application design in addressing concerns such as edge connectivity, massive data, high-speed data ingestion, and security. But there are some unique challenges, such as knowledge of asset models, industrial analytics, and industrial operations, when you create applications for industrial customers.