- [Instructor] The Hardware Defined Product
is one of four main components of an IOT product.
Its purpose is to capture data from the edge,
sometimes process it, and then transmit
the data over the network to the application.
Because of the nature of an IOT product,
the edge can be within the product,
or distributed across the system or environment.
The Hardware Defined Product consists
of two types of components,
connected sensors and actuators,
and embedded system.
The Hardware Defined Product
only includes these two components
and not the rest of the physical product.
The sensor gathers data from the physical environment.
The actuator makes physical changes to the product.
The embedded system gathers the data, packages it,
and then sends it along the network to the application.
It may also do local processing of the app,
analytics, or security.
The Hardware Defined Product captures internal sensor data
and transmits it over the OT,
or Operational Technology Network,
to the software defined product where it's processed.