IoT PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) is one of the three main components in the cloud computing field. It provides a software R&D platform as a service to users in the SaaS mode.
What IoT PaaS platform is
IoT PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) is one of the three main components in the cloud computing field. It provides a software R&D platform as a service to users in the SaaS mode.
The two main customers of the IoT PaaS platform are development personnel and O&M personnel.
The IoT PaaS platform connects to the IaaS to provide a cloud computing environment for applications and provides platform infrastructure services for applications through the SaaS. Therefore, the IoT PaaS platform must be capable of elastic scaling and intelligent O&M while providing service functions for applications.
The functional architecture of the IoT PaaS platform consists of the following parts:
Basic software and middleware supporting applications (such as databases, web services, application frameworks, and message services)
Cloud computing-based application deployment running environment and development environment, including shared application resource library and development community support
Multi-tenant support and management
The logical architecture of the IoT PaaS platform mainly includes various service plug-ins formed based on the preceding functions and isolation facilities between services to ensure service independence.
IoT PaaS architecture model and business value
The architecture model of the IoT PaaS emphasizes monitoring. The monitoring includes passive application monitoring and even application traffic monitoring at the IaaS layer, IoT PaaS layer, APM, and platform. What are the targets of surveillance? It is for O&M automation. If you don't even find a problem at first, how can you make it recover automatically?
The IoT PaaS can automatically recover from faults.
Bringing applications online, deploying applications, and upgrading applications.
Add resources. The IoT PaaS supports automatic scaling, such as capacity expansion, installation, and configuration.
As the IoT PaaS platform carries more and more applications and is intended for more and more users, various service data and customer data on the IoT PaaS platform have more and more value for statistical analysis. Big data analysis can be used as a basis for dynamic resource allocation of the IoT PaaS platform, and is of great reference value for application promotion and application R&D guidance.
IoT PaaS platform carrying future services
With the development of the IoT, almost all applications in the future will be based on the IoT. Therefore, the future PaaS platform must be the PaaS platform of the IoT. All future applications will be SaaS applications developed based on the IoT PaaS platform. Therefore, the IoT PaaS platform will carry future commercial services.
More and more large enterprises have launched the IoT PaaS platform. By this year, almost all well-known supply chain solution providers have launched the IoT PaaS platform. The Industrial Internet Alliance has also launched the Industrial Internet Platform White Paper. In fact, the Industrial Internet Platform is an industrial IoT PaaS platform.
IoT is an integral part of digital transformation for enterprises to gain more value from existing investments. Investment in IoT is expected to improve efficiency while reducing long-term maintenance costs. Business executives want to add valuable information from IoT solutions to standard reports. Intelligent asset management, predictive maintenance, supply chain, and inventory management are several scenarios for enterprise digital transformation.
