Industrial IoT Markets and Security

In this module, you will see a specialization overview of all 3 courses, an overview of this course, and a lesson on writing resumes and interviewing for a job.

In this module, you will see an overview of the 5 Industrial IoT (IIoT) Markets covered in this course, and learn the key skills necessary to work in the IIoT space. Additionally, you will learn about the enabling factors that made it possible for the IIoT to come into existence, what a platform is, and the leading suppliers of platforms. I'll give you a quick look at an example building automation deployment and how a platform creates the "glue" that ties the entire system together. We will also take a look at the software and services markets.

In this module, you will learn about the top 5 IIoT market application areas. Additionally, we will look at the considerations involved in selecting a real-time operating system (RTOS) for an IIoT end node (Think: A single board computer with sensors and actuators, controlling a manufacturing machine like a lathe or a drill).

In this module, we look at networking concepts and two important technologies: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networks (SDN). We then move on to a survey of long-range and short-range wireless protocols used in IIoT deployments.

This is the most important module in the entire specialization and this course. With billions of devices connected to the internet, security is of paramount importance. I will share with you the bulk of my experience in developing security solutions for end-node type devices. In my career, the products I worked on were satellite TV decoder chips, hard drives and solid state drives (storage devices). The security principles that work for these chips and storage devices apply equally well to IIoT devices.