Service architecture

The service architecture is shown in the following figure.

IoT Edge has three main components: the device, the edge, and the cloud:

• Device

  Developers use the device access SDK to transform non-standard devices into standard Thing Specification Language models. These devices then connect to a nearby gateway for management and control.

• Edge

  After a device connects to the gateway, the gateway collects, streams, stores, analyzes, and uploads device data to the cloud. The gateway also provides a rules engine and a Function Compute engine to simplify scenario orchestration and business extension.

• Cloud

  After device data is uploaded to the cloud, it can be integrated with Alibaba Cloud features, such as big data and AI learning. You can then use standard API operations to implement more features and applications.