The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) - or, more broadly, Industry 4.0 - is being described as the next industrial revolution and, like all revolutions, there will certainly be casualties. Traditional ways of doing things and technologies that engineers feel comfortable with will be turned on their heads and replaced by the unfamiliar, challenging and exciting world of big data Industry 4.0 is more than the IoT. It is a system of operating complex processes using intelligent connected devices. It is denned by high levels of computational power, big data and widespread connectivity. It crosses the boundary between closed industrial networks and the use of Internet Protocol (IP) wide area networks. This enables parameters to be measured, machines to be monitored and components to be counted, with all this data being processed and analysed so that something meaningful can be done with it - either automatically or with some intervention.
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