More connected devices mean more potential threats. If your refrigerator gets hacked, it will be a costly and troublesome problem for you to have fixed. If the operational technology for the local power company is hacked, the problems will be more widespread and dangerous. Cyber security ......
IoT is the “Internet of Things,” the collection of billions of devices around the world that are connected to the Internet. In the past, the Internet was mainly comprised of computers and servers of various sizes and capacities. Now there are billions of devices connected to the internet, including sensors, monitors, and special software.
Industrial Cellular Gateways are used to connect remote devices even when it is not possible to connect with standard Ethernet cabling. The gateways play an important part in SCADA connectivity, M2M communications, and IoT deployments.
- Computing at the network edge that allows data produced by IoT devices "to be processed closer to where it is created instead of sending it across long routes to data centers or clouds." Doing this, "lets organizations analyze important data in near real-time."