| dc.description.abstract | Chapter 1, Defining IoT Analytics and Challenges, defines, for the purposes of this book, what constitutes the Internet of Things. It will also define what is meant by the term Analytics when used in the book. The chapter will discuss special challenges that come with IoT data from the volume of data to issues with time and space that are not normally a concern with internal company data sets. The reader will have a good grasp of the scope of the book and the challenges that he or she will learn to overcome in the later chapters. Chapter 2, IoT Devices and Networking Protocols, reviews in more depth the variety of IoT devices and networking protocols. The reader will learn the scope of device and example use cases, which will be discussed in easy-to-understand categories. The variety of networking protocols will be discussed along with the business need they are trying to solve. By the end of the chapter, the reader will understand the what and the why of the major categories of devices and networking protocol strategies. The reader will also start to learn how to identify characteristics of the device and network protocol from the resulting data. | en_US |
