• DOI:10.15406/iratj.2017.03.00079
• Corpus ID: 115942296

Internet of Things (IoT) Realization in the Context of Industry 4.0 (I 4.0)

@inproceedings{Zawra2017InternetOT,
  title={Internet of Things (IoT) Realization in the Context of Industry 4.0 (I 4.0)},
  author={Labib M. Zawra},
  booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
  year={2017}
}

• L. M. Zawra
• Published in
  IEEE International Conference…
  22 December 2017
• Computer Science

Industry 4.0 will provide intelligence and communication for smart systems. Smart systems that includes; smart cities, smart factories, and smart grids have become the epitome of the modern technology. Smart systems, one of the facets of Industry 4.0, will revolutionize the sector tremendously. Recent reports indicate that the economic impact on the German industry will result in an added gross value of 267 billion euros by 2025 after introducing the industry 4. A comparison between Today’s factory and future (Industry 4.0 based) factory is presented in Table 1. However, there will be a need for seamless communication between these smart systems. Internet of Things (IoT) will provide the requisite communication infrastructure to facilitate communication between the increased number of sensors (things) and systems. IoT will utilize the internet protocol version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 is being preferred because it creates addressing capacity of 2^128 individual addresses. Therefore, each and every smart device will be assigned a unique IP-address. IPv6 will enable allowing the limitless addition of devices on the Internet, which is the idea behind Internet of Things concept. IPv6, which will improve the performance of cyber-physical systems, one of the facets of Industry 4.0. Applying the same idea on manufacturing environment will enable automation system builders to integrate huge number of sensors, controllers and products under one common platform [1-4].