TECHNOLOGY
Multi-tiered architectures for the Internet of Things gets more complex and expensive as you add tiers .
it if another train is too close or there is a reason to slow down or speed up . These decisions rest with the individual drivers and there is room for errors and inefficiency . Using an IoT approach , the rail company can operate a centralised system that knows exactly where all the trains are at any given time . It can automatically adjust the speed for safety and to
improve things like timetable efficiency and resource consumption .
Different Architecture Because of the mission-critical nature of IoT in the enterprise , there need to be fundamental differences in the architecture .
For consumer-driven IoT use cases a two-tier architecture is typically
18 February 2015