Smart water meters across neighborhoods send readings through field gateways before data reaches cloud analytics. Which IoT pattern does this illustrate?
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Short Explanation
Each meter is a little sensor out in the neighborhood; the gateway is the neighborhood mailman who collects readings and ships them up to the cloud. That sensors-to-gateways-to-cloud pattern is classic IoT. It is not a print spooler or a photo CDN.
Full Explanation
IoT architectures commonly place sensors or devices at the edge, use gateways for aggregation or protocol translation, and forward telemetry to cloud services for storage and analytics. Cloud+ evolving-technology coverage includes this pattern at conceptual depth. Mainframe-only batch, office print systems, and CDN static delivery are different patterns.