The development of next generation of industrial control to meet business requirement and elegantly utilize the latest information technologies has been a challenge and opportunity to industrial control community in coming decades. The purposes of this presentation are to provide an analytical review of the recent trends of future industrial controls, and then to investigate the potential applications of internet of things, sensor network and the concept of smart planet in building an enterprise-wide industrial control systems with integration of control, computer, communication and network technologies. Finally, a number of open R&D problems are proposed in the section of concluding remarks.
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