IoT Gateway

Why is the IoT Gateway required?

1. Electric Power constraint

Most of the IoT devices have limited availability of electric power as they are battery operated therefore to transfer data into cloud there is an essential requirement of a solution that addresses this limited electric power constraint. IoT Gateway works as a bridge by supporting network protocols that consume very less electric power. And then sends received data to the cloud using 2G, 3G or LTE networks.

2. Usage of Heterogeneous data transfer protocols

As we know that different types of IoT devices support different data transfer protocols like BLE, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Wifi etc. Therefore, for providing interoperability among different types of protocols, an IoT Gateway is required that processes and converts data into recipient format. IoT Gateway does this processing by parsing different formats, filtering, aggregating data & taking local data storage or backup.

3. Security

a. Authentication & Authorization

To allow only registered and authorized IoT devices operate in given IoT infrastructure; a mechanism is required to find all devices but provision only authorized devices. IoT Gateway fulfills such need by enabling proper authentication & authorization mechanisms along with support of device management as well.

b. Data Protection

While transferring data among different IoT devices and cloud networks, there is a critical requirement to protect data so that no one can steal or tamper it. Therefore, proper data encryption & decryption mechanism is also required. IoT Gateway supports all types of cryptographic technologies.

4. Integration with Heterogeneous cloud solution providers

There are different types of cloud based solution providers those provides various services along with APIs to consume them. Therefore, a proper integration with those APIs is required. IoT Gateway also provides such APIs integration framework.

5. Seamless data transfer for large demographic solution

To provide an IoT based solution in large demography, there is an essential requirement to transfer data seamlessly and not be affected by network or power outage. Therefore, a proper cluster based load balancing solution is needed. IoT Gateway also plays a good role there by supporting clustering technologies.

6. Centralized monitoring and controlling IoT devices

For managing & diagnose multiple IoT devices along with sending proper commands on demand or periodically, a proper portal is required that is accessible from browser as well as from mobile app.