The IIoT is at the basis of the so-called Smart Factories, new advanced manufacturing units of the fourth industrial revolution. Smart sensors, super-fast connections, artificial intelligence ...

Internet of Things communication methods such as OPC UA, MQTT, and REST API make field level data available to the cloud, creating flexible production networks to support efficient manufacturing. The ...

Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is poised to have the biggest impact on industrial networking since Ethernet was introduced to the plant floor more than two decades ago. “The goal is to ensure a ...