Industrial Internet of Things with Node-RED

• Managers responsible for business and operational processes within their respective organizations and want to know how to harness IoT to make their systems and processes more efficient.
• Entrepreneurs and Investors who are looking to build new ventures and want to develop a better understanding of the IoT technology landscape to see how they can leverage it in an effective manner.

The topic of this training is given as follows:

• Area1: Internet of Things Eco-systems

This lecture will explain about the whole eco-system of internet of things (IoT)/ industrial internet of things (IIoT). We’11 start with the explanation on the general architecture, things, middleware and networking requirement for IoT. The examples of existing IoT solution will be given to provide the better understanding about the IoT.

• Area 2: A brief introduction to Node-RED  for IoT

This lecture will introduce you to some examples of Node-RED development for IoT solution, both to give you a sense of its capabilities and to introduce its basic concepts. We’ll also discuss the history of Node-RED and its origins to give you an idea of what Node-RED is good for and of what types of tasks are best left to a more traditional programming language and environments.

• Area 3 – Building your first flows 

This lecture will introduce you to the Node-RED visual tool and get you started building your first flow. You’ll learn how to create simple flows, use debug nodes to track messages through the flows and how to use the function node to write simple JavaScript code that tailors the node to your specific needs.

• Area 4 – Basic nodes and flows 

In this lecture you will get to see a few of the more commonly used nodes and build on some of the things you learnt in previous lectures. You’ll start off with a series of examples based around the popular MQTT protocol that shows how to wire together a set of basic but very useful message processing nodes. Then you’ll briefly look at other ways to get messages into and out of your flows using protocols such as TCP, UDP and websockets.

• Area 5 – A tour of the core nodes 

This lecture will take a look at the core set of nodes that Node-RED installs by default and then show you the extended set of nodes that the cloud-based Node-RED service – FRED – supports.

• Area 6 – The Node-RED programming model 

In this lecture, you’ll take a more detailed look at Node-RED’s programming model and some of its key concepts and explore the details of the message flow model that underlies Node-RED. Then you’ll dive into how to program your own function nodes using JavaScript and create reusable sub flows to add your own functionality to the set of nodes supplied with Node-RED.

• Area 7 – Intermediate flows 

This lecture will build on the ideas you saw in lecture 5 and focus on examples that explore some of the key concepts from that lecture. The examples in this lecture are a little more complex than previous examples – mainly in the sense that the function nodes are more complex – but are still kept as clean and simple as possible.

• Area 8 – Dashboards and UI techniques.  

In this lecture you will take a look a few techniques to allow you to visualize data passing through flows. We’ll focus on three approaches;

• PART 1: the use of a third party dashboard tool – FreeBoard,
• PART 2: using the standard Node-RED default UI nodes
• PART 3: using a standard external JavaScript charting library (Morris.JS).

• Area 9 – examples of advanced flows.

This lecture is a collection of tutorials and blogs that we’ve written showing Node-RED used for more sophisticated applications. It includes usage of IBM watson for AI bots, some hard core MQTT and OPC for the IoT crowd etc

• Area 10: Industrial Internet of Things with Node-RED

In this lecture, we shall explore the utilization of Node-RED as the enabler for IIoT development. Specific example on how to connect SIMATIC IOT2000 as a reference.

• Area 10: Wrap Up and Moving Forward

In this lecture, we shall wrap up all topics that been discussed and understand about the capabilities of Node-RED in IoT or IIoT development.