Integration & Gateways

Protocol bridges, gateway design, and interoperability patterns

Your guide: Gateway Gus

“An evidence record is the difference between a demo that worked once and a network you can defend.”

About This Module

This is Part 5.5 of the IoT Class curriculum. It contains 19 chapters organised into 4 parts. Use this page as a route map, or use the sidebar and search to move between chapters.

Figure 1: Four-stage route map for the Integration and Gateways module: protocol selection and interoperability, protocol bridging, message queuing, and mobile gateways, each labeled with its chapter count.

Chapters by Part

Protocol Selection & Interoperability

• Interoperability Beyond Connection
• Choosing an IoT Protocol Stack
• The Industrial Protocol Landscape
• OPC UA: Models, Services, and Trust
• Modbus and the Register Contract
• Industrial Ethernet Family Design

Protocol Bridging

• Why Bridge Protocols in IoT
• Protocol Bridging Fundamentals
• Sensor Communication Protocols
• Protocol Bridging Examples
• Lab: Gateway Protocol Translation
• IoT Interoperability Challenges

Message Queuing

• Message Queue Fundamentals
• Pub/Sub and Topic Routing
• Lab: Message Queue Challenges

Mobile Gateways

• Mobile Phone Gateway Fundamentals
• Edge and Fog Gateways
• Mobile Gateway Challenges
• Lab: Mobile Gateway Protocols

How to Use This Material

• Start with the why: each chapter explains the problem it solves before implementation detail.
• Follow the parts in order when the topic is new, or jump straight to the part that matches your current question.
• Use the interactions and labs as the primary learning tools, not just the prose.

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