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Having understood the significance and working principles of Internet of Things in the previous chapters, this chapter introduces the special variant of Internet of Things which is called as Enterprise IoT or Industrial IoT. The application of Internet of Things in industries is the major focus among all the technology enthusiasts. The industrial IoT is the application of IoT in various industrial domains such as manufacturing, retail, healthcare, energy, supply chain management and logistics etc., It is an extension of robotics and industrial automation with more advanced intelligence and smartness by connecting everything to internet. This chapter tries to address the differences between consumer IoT and Industrial IoT in the beginning and analyses a set of Enterprise IoT applications as a case study to understand the characteristics and potential of Enterprise IoT. The various components of Enterprise IoT are discussed in the next section where everything involved in an Enterprise IoT application from the physical layer level devices to the higher-level applications and solutions. The Enterprise IoT as a technology area, is not evolving very smoothly, but with plenty of challenges. This chapter discusses some of the most important challenges for Enterprise IoT on which several research works are going on in industries and academic institutions. When an Enterprise decides to go for an Enterprise IoT solution, there are several important strategical decisions they must take. The winning strategies for any Enterprise IoT stakeholder are provided in the next section. The last part of the chapter is to introduce the advanced trends in Enterprise IoT such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Advanced analytics with Big data. Thus, this chapter helps the reader to understand the various aspects of Enterprise Internet of Things after acquiring technical background of Internet of Things from the previous chapters. It is going to be foundation for understanding the Architecture and Design of Enterprise IoT in the next chapters.
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Jayashree, L.S., Selvakumar, G. (2020). Introduction to Enterprise IoT. In: Getting Started with Enterprise Internet of Things: Design Approaches and Software Architecture Models. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30945-9_4
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