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Smart campus energy management network spanning three tiers—access, distribution, and core—with segregated VLANs for smart meters, environmental sensors, motion detectors, LPWAN gateways, and Wi-Fi access points. Traffic flows through a DMZ perimeter with WAF, Shield, and Core Firewall before routing to AWS IoT Core, IoT Greengrass, and a full analytics stack including Kinesis, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Glue, EMR, and SageMaker. This architecture demonstrates defense-in-depth with IAM/Auth, KMS encryption, CloudTrail audit logging, and EventBridge-driven automation for real-time alerts and predictive maintenance. Fork this diagram to customize VLANs, add additional sensor types, or integrate with your existing AWS account topology. The design balances on-premises edge processing via Greengrass with centralized cloud analytics, ideal for large-scale IoT deployments requiring low-latency local control and long-term data science.

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How do I design a secure multi-tier IoT network for a smart campus with AWS IoT Core and edge processing?

This diagram shows a three-tier architecture with segregated VLANs for smart meters, environmental sensors, motion detectors, and LPWAN gateways, all protected by WAF, Shield, and Core Firewall. Data flows to AWS IoT Core and IoT Greengrass for edge processing, then to Kinesis, S3, and analytics services like EMR and SageMaker for real-time insights and predictive maintenance.