Industry 4.0 leverages innovations in industrial IoT, AI and machine learning (ML), edge computing and wireless communications. Asset-intensive industries are moving quickly to take advantage of these technologies, including manufacturing, ports, mines, utilities, railways, airports, logistics, intelligent highways and smart cities.
The digital transformation of these activities is based on your ability to capture data, process and analyze it and to then act on it, often in near-real-time. Data captured from IIoT sensors is processed by edge computing using AI and ML to model and analyze it. The results are used to make split-second decisions, reconfigure processes and achieve new efficiencies, especially around automation.
Industry 4.0 and private wireless together enable industries to fuse physical with digital processes by connecting all sensors, machines and workers in the most flexible, affordable and reliable way available.
Private wireless provides an important part of the Industry 4.0 connectivity layer along with cabled Ethernet and passive optical LAN. It is especially useful for connecting thousands of low-powered sensors, mobile workers and their equipment, digitalizing legacy machines, and connecting with any machine that moves, from autonomous intelligent vehicles (AIVs) on the factory floor, to autonomous ore trucks in an open pit mine.
via https://www.AiUpNow.com
October 5, 2021 at 08:35AM by IoT Now Magazine, Khareem Sudlow
