The Internet of Things in the Cloud: A Middleware Perspective (Hardcover)

Although the Internet of Things (IoT) is a vast and dynamic territory that is evolving rapidly, there has been a need for a book that offers a holistic view of the technologies and applications of the entire IoT spectrum. Filling this void, The Internet of Things in the Cloud: A Middleware Perspective provides a comprehensive introduction to the IoT and its development worldwide.

It gives you a panoramic view of the IoT landscape—focusing on the overall technological architecture and design of a tentatively unified IoT framework underpinned by Cloud computing from a middleware perspective. Organized into three sections, it:

1. Describes the many facets of Internet of Things—including the four pillars of IoT and the three layer value chain of IoT
2. Focuses on middleware, the glue and building blocks of a holistic IoT system on every layer of the architecture
3. Explores Cloud computing and IoT as well as their synergy based on the common background of distributed processing

The book is based on the author’s two previous bestselling books (in Chinese) on IoT and Cloud computing and more than two decades of hands-on software/middleware programming and architecting experience at organizations such as the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, IBM, BEA Systems, and Silicon Valley startup Doubletwist. Tapping into this wealth of knowledge, the book categorizes the many facets of the IoT and proposes a number of paradigms and classifications about Internet of Things' mass and niche markets and technologies.

儘管物聯網（IoT）是一個龐大且不斷發展的領域，但迄今為止還缺乏一本提供整體物聯網技術和應用的綜合性書籍。填補這一空白，《物聯網在雲端中：中介軟體觀點》提供了對全球物聯網及其發展的全面介紹。

該書從中介軟體的角度，給出了物聯網景觀的全景視圖，著重於以雲端運算為基礎的暫定統一物聯網框架的整體技術架構和設計。分為三個部分，它：

1. 描述了物聯網的多個方面，包括物聯網的四個支柱和物聯網的三層價值鏈。
2. 聚焦於中介軟體，作為整體物聯網系統的黏合劑和構建模塊，存在於架構的每一層。
3. 探討了雲端運算和物聯網以及它們基於分散處理的共同背景下的協同作用。

該書基於作者先前在物聯網和雲端運算領域的兩本暢銷書籍（中文版），以及在奧克儲國家實驗室、IBM、BEA Systems和矽谷初創公司Doubletwist等組織中超過二十年的實踐軟體/中介軟體編程和架構經驗。借助這豐富的知識，該書對物聯網的多個方面進行了分類，並提出了一些關於物聯網的大眾市場和專業市場以及相關技術的範式和分類。