Break through the hype and learn how to extract actionable intelligence from the flood of IoT data
Key FeaturesMake better business decisions and acquire greater control of your IoT infrastructureLearn techniques to solve unique problems associated with IoT and examine and analyze data from your IoT devicesUncover the business potential generated by data from IoT devices and bring down business costsBook DescriptionWe start with the perplexing task of extracting value from huge amounts of barely intelligible data. The data takes a convoluted route just to be on the servers for analysis, but insights can emerge through visualization and statistical modeling techniques. You will learn to extract value from IoT big data using multiple analytic techniques.
Next we review how IoT devices generate data and how the information travels over networks. You’ll get to know strategies to collect and store the data to optimize the potential for analytics, and strategies to handle data quality concerns.
Cloud resources are a great match for IoT analytics, so Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and PTC ThingWorx are reviewed in detail next. Geospatial analytics is then introduced as a way to leverage location information. Combining IoT data with environmental data is also discussed as a way to enhance predictive capability. We’ll also review the economics of IoT analytics and you’ll discover ways to optimize business value.
By the end of the book, you’ll know how to handle scale for both data storage and analytics, how Apache Spark can be leveraged to handle scalability, and how R and Python can be used for analytic modeling.
What You Will LearnOvercome the challenges IoT data brings to analyticsUnderstand the variety of transmission protocols for IoT along with their strengths and weaknessesLearn how data flows from the IoT device to the final data setDevelop techniques to wring value from IoT dataApply geospatial analytics to IoT dataUse machine learning as a predictive method on IoT dataImplement best strategies to get the most from IoT analyticsMaster the economics of IoT analytics in order to optimize business valueTable of ContentsDefining IoT Analytics and ChallengesIoT Devices and Networking ProtocolsIoT Analytics for the CloudCreating an AWS Cloud Analytics EnvironmentCollecting All That Data - Strategies and TechniquesGetting to Know Your Data - Exploring IoT DataDecorating Your Data - Adding External Datasets to InnovateCommunicating with Others - Visualization and DashboardingApplying Geospatial Analytics to IoT DataData Science for IoT AnalyticsStrategies to Organize Data for AnalyticsThe Economics of IoT AnalyticsBringing It All Together