5G-Ready in the Industrial IoT-Environment Requirements and Needs for IoT Applications from an Industrial Perspective

摘要

5G will be a key enabler for future trends in the industry 4.0 environment. Two primary goals exist in this context: The first one regards to complex autonomous automation where ultra-high reliability and low latencies are required for the collaboration between humans and robots. The second one will focus on the Internet of Things (IoT), where vast numbers of connected devices (e.g. sensors and actuators) can communicate with each other. Despite all hypes, 5G is still in development, and most details are not clearly defined yet and far beyond the commercial use. This paper will show an approach for IoT-related usage in an industrial environment by means of its needs, requirements and potentials using the upcoming telecommunication standard 5G. Especially IoT-applications with hundreds of hundreds of connected devices will support a highly flexible production-logistics system, which can satisfy the actual customer needs for custom-tailored solutions, services and products. Finally, as a use case, a demonstrator is shown, which will focus on IoT applications in a future production-logistics environment by using a 5G framework supporting the ideas of Industry 4.0.