Chapter 1: Introduction to Industrial IoT

1. The Walmart mandate failed mainly due to the lack of maturity of the technologies.
2. The main enabling factors for the IoT are as follows:
   • New, mature sensors with more capabilities and a high performance at a low cost.
   • New networks and wireless connectivity (such as PAN and LAN) interconnecting the sensors and devices to optimize the bandwidth, power consumption, latency, and range.
   • New, powerful, and cheap processors and microprocessors coming from the mobile devices world.
   • Real-time operating systems, leading to a more sophisticated and powerful integrated development platform at the maker's disposal.
   • Virtualization technology, which divides naturally into the data center, big data, and the cloud.
   • The diffusion of mobile devices.
3. Big data, the cloud, and data analytics.
4. An object connected to the cloud, which gives it further...