Internet of Things and Edge Cloud Computing Roadmap for Manufacturing

The industrial Internet or Internet of Things (IoT) for manufacturing is a new Internet evolution.. It involves integrating potentially billions of sensors, cameras, industrial machines, displays, smartphones, and other smart communicating devices collectively referred to as things(1,2) into cloud datacenters, and processing their data in a timely fashion on elastic and virtualized cloud resources for automating an end-to-end manufacturing lifecycle. Industry consortiums around the world are making significant efforts to develop and advocate an open, standards-driven smart manufacturing factory supported by the Industry 4.0 vision (the fourth industrial revolution).(3) As defined in Wikipedia, Industry 4.0 is embracing a number of contemporary automation, data exchange and manufacturing technologies.