Smart factories leverage cloud, edge computing

摘要

The IIoT will continue its rapid pace of adoption, sometimes intersecting with other emerging technologies. For example, at the Hannover Fair in April, Fraunhofer detailed how 5G would unleash its potential in Industrie 4.0 applications and what it calls the tactile Internet. "We've already shown in the lab that it's possible to transfer data at 10 gigabits a second with a latency of 1 millisecond and with absolute reliability," said Prof. Sla-womir Stanczak, co-head of the Wireless Communications and Networks department at the Fraunhofer HHI, in a press release issued in advance of the show. "And we are ready to present solutions that can easily be applied to products in some interesting application areas"-such as reliably controlling robots from afar.